here is meadow’s delicate daisy fleabane
rising up to meet sizzling summer rain
holding her yellow heads high in each storm
stoically resisting a honey bee swarm
ideas of her own has this sweet bard
one of the few flowering weeds in my yard
growing renegade in patches wearing thin
next to her stands her equally opinionated twin
When the brightest moon begins to wane,
And the sun breathes life into every plain.
Mother Nature sees life sustain.
Springtime starts her flowering reign.
Blue Vervain and Daisy Fleabane –
Pristinely plants spread in the rain.
Even deadly plants like Henbane
Grow with purpose and not in vain.
Mother Nature’s wisdoms remain.
Whether harvesting fruit or grain,
With her help all life can sustain.
Mother Nature brings sun and rain.
Farmers, plant crops, like sugarcane,
They prepare to make syrup again.
Babies watch through the windowpane.
Seeds are planted in rich terrain.
Others grow well in a flood plain.
Crops are dusted from a bi-plane.
She hopes man won’t pollute again.
In the past it was all in vain.
I can feel Mother Nature’s pain.
By Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
1/14/2017
..just then
It was just there, a few weeks ago,
When the Sun was high;
Nestled with Fleabane;
Pillowed in Stitchwort.
Barely fern-like and feathery, just new,
A small Astilbe, from somewhere.
Growing was newer, just then,
Hinting boundlessness, endlessness;
Stirring in Bindweed;
Rising in Buttercups.
This slanting-orange morning, just now,
Spade in hand to save the Astilbe, I find it gone;
Taken by Redroot,
Fallowed by Sorrel.
Barely reddish, silent, nubile green, just new,
The small Astilbe from somewhere, now gone!
I guess it was a moment’s treasure, just then.
Like oblique light upon the wood, just now.
Or parched Cocklebur,
Or withered Hop.
FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 2
Lady’s mantle with butcher’s broom
dwarf cornel cotton grass so thin,
yellow travellers joy,with buttercup
on sunspurged ,petty whin.
Creeping jenny over silverweed
groundsel& cudweed,balm,rockrose
and agromony with thistle prickly green.
Good King Henry,goose fat red and a full
fat hen,in moschatel with mistletoe
and eyebright mustard so white.Thyme
&teasel so tamarisk in water-peppered bogbean;
grape hyacinth with forget-me-not in a
sea of lavender blue-green.Honesty
cuckoo flower,flax fumitory & fleabane;
musk marsh marigold&daffodil
in scentless mayweed.Yarrow ramson scabious
feverless,&plantain true with pepperwort,
cress seabeat burr buttered blue.
From Flights of Fancy 2003
Listen to me recite this part phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthys chiro
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