Winter Quartet
...I live far -far North of sustainable warmth.
At times in winter, it's so cold
that the snow under my boots
goes into frosty death rattle mode.
It's within this hue of brutal
that an unknown en...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, animal, winter,
Form: Free verse
Nesting
...Few people there were,
the day was slipping gently
into rising pools of twilight.
Passing city lights
winked
behand stands of trees.
Here is a family of walkers,
how like birds they appear?
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sparrow Comforted Tiny Faerie
...Sparrow comforted the tiny faerie whose heart was broken.
She could not express her sorrow, it was almost unspoken.
But her hazel eyes screamed sadness, and there was hurt for sure.
He stayed by h...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, bird, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
The Birdwatcher
...Once, I was a purple bird
A red bird, a blue bird
A yellow bird, a green bird
Through all those birds
I realized the words
Were simply a display of
My Grandma’s affections
She watched me eac...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, bird, child, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
Cuddle Me
...Awake those memories of the first touch,
the unending kisses and the taste of the flowery buds
oh! the loving steer, piercing though my joints.
the ravishing silence of words unutterable .
the...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, butterfly, care, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Flutist
...chirpy and happy
with melody birdlike ways
he was a flutist...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, music,
Form: Senryu
The Luxury of a Garden
...Garden’s luxury of pinkest foxglove,
Nurtured by angels from way up above,
Along with petunias and marigolds,
Honors the true path of the very old.
Joyful delight oozing from every pore,
Fairy...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, garden,
Form: Sonnet
That Star There
...That star there...
The shining-first star
(shining over the Shikargah forest ),
I have been watching it o dear son , here,
At this window
For years now --
Since my late-twenties I think .
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Lifted
...lifted
my words just barely dried
a poem appears in Spring
draws breath from a widow
close at hand, open to new
worlds across the land.
gently are these bon mot
teased into the silken air
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, anti bullying, bird,
Form: Free verse
Far-Off
...How quietly the night goes gliding by;
How peacefully the might of it doth fill.
There's not a star up in the far dark sky
But fiery, gleams, and yet is calm and still.
An ocean of sweet grass fl...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
birdlike, hope
Form: Sonnet