Childhood Earth Day Poems

A Poem for the Grey Shrike written on Earth Day 2016

At sunrise while asleep
I was called by a bird tweet
Like a childhood song
So sharp so...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Water crashes against an unmoveable stone face.
As white foam blows high like star's in space.
My gaze reaches up and over rolling hill's of
beautyful green grass...

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Two colours true colour
Morality is the mirror of fate
Two colours charity to eternity
Two thoughts in one mind
One thought made it so
Two lovers in one house
Two...

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Child's Play

Dug out thin dusty worms
In cemented elementary school sandbox
With white plastic spoon
Until then, forgot warms were a thing

In high school
Rain and wind
Brought plump snaky...

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“Oh, no”, she cried from quickly waking,
Feet were freezing, knees were shaking.
Potty time was overtaking on this moonless night.
 
But the room was dark and...

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Clogs  
I always wore clogs with solid socks when a boy
bought a pair today, not made of wood and leather
but of some plastic stuff....

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Another day
Another memory fades
Le jardin que toujours existe
Has disappeared, disparu

An army of 40,000 destroyed
All that my childhood held dear
They arrive in planes and limos
Coal fired...

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Long ago,the guinea fowls congregated 
Clourfully and innumerably 
And sang sweet songs 
And played in the savanah
They sang for the for the antelopes 
To leap...

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During October and November,
after the bitter four mile cycle
from the school,
I'd eat my dinner,
then face the job of picking potatoes
from the long ridges
my father had...

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Down in to the darkness deep
Slowly and delicately I now edge
In to the warmth so cold and bleak
In to the womb I once resided
In the...

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