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Evening Watch

Transports of hereafter pass one leaf to unclasped heaps. Flirty winds rearrange the hedgerow plumage, wisp in gentle whispers. Chipping sparrows play hid and seek with a watery sunlight. Business is flourishing for the snuffling groundhog. It’s the narrow part of the day, a shoaling light ripples where squirrels dart. A Blue Jay raps his usual rib-digging oldie. Felicity flutters the loose and drifting: the soft green carousels of evening, the pirouette and circumvolve promenading. Leaf bundles are ransacked by delving voles but gently. Seeing all this I paint the hedgerow again with this eventide wash, watch it all spun into dusk from these owl bright eyes.

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John Fleming

Date: 5/1/2021 9:41:00 AM

You have a undoubted talent, Eric...compliments of an extraordinarily observant and keen eye. Just one suggestion: you need to upload far less poems at one go...you are lessening the impact of your unquestionable talent. May I suggest just two or three a week...less even. Sometimes far less is far better: you will receive more viewings and comments by doing so; this will ensure you receive a far wider reading thus helping you become more established here on the Soup. Keep writing -- great work!

Eric Ashford
Date: 7/1/2021 4:32:00 PM

Thank you John, I must confess that I use this site as a poem dump. For some reason any replies to my poems have been blocked until today. I just presumed that the membership was to inexperienced to understand real poetry. I have a fear of losing my work, so I keep a record of them here. Good to see that many in fact do appreciate my works. I hope this does not too arrogant of me, I don't mean it to be so - I too have a lot to learn.