Best Cattails Poems

I enter the solstice
to hear snow falling
where winter leads the way

Along a childhood memory
snow labored painfully
sweeping the landscape
with heavy shoulders
of white surrender

It seemed a great distance
from Grandmother’s house 
to the barn
where the icy sky 
bellowed a deep freeze
over shivering fields
of forgotten cattails


-----------------------------------------

from my sixth book-length...

Continue reading...

oriole's realm
along the roadside
~ cattails sway



posted on August 7, 2018...

Continue reading...

landscapes own design 
god's gift in so many ways 
brings beauty to pond...

Continue reading...

crystal ice soldiers 
frozen cattail brigade
guarding  sugar lake...

Continue reading...

Run over here come to me in this place
 where the creek goes between the woody hills
 and flows to the pond, where spiders make lace
 where the streams meet and come to end their rills

 Where the dirty old white horse takes his drink
...

Continue reading...

In the darkest night
Glowing rounds creep across fields;
Creature called Night Eyes.

Mother Moon singing;
Ethereal notes riding 
Silent silky breeze.

Colored tapestry;
Brightly painted planets dance
In black lacquered sky.

Flickering bright lights
Air dancing across the grass;
Fireflies in the night.

Weaving fingers play
Among windup dragonflies;
Cattails by a pond.

...

Continue reading...