Long Buntings Poems

Bird watchers say
 there are birds that return in spring to play
build a nest, raise their young
 but as seasons change there are always some
who stay the winter, forage for seeds
 familiar ones that cling...

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Scavenging squirrels search for acorns, scratching old stumps from trees. 
Scampering up my sugar maple, they steal my bird feeder seeds. 
Sleepy salamanders wake from their slumber to search on slippery stones for a spider...

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Night of Aurora	

Dance of Life -
Night of Aurora before the midnight sun,
Before the polar threshold of the daystar,
As Aurora’s swirling spirals flicker
In winsome purple-green electric flashes,
Dappled spectral neon scarves 
From nighttide’s celestial dust,

Dance of barefoot...

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Jinu Turned Six


The house was decorated with balloons and buntings
Family cheered as Jinu turned six in the leap year gone by
Multiply it by four, but my Jinu remained glued to six
She lives away but her...

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I wot of maifaire said the man where people sell
Upon the green where are leafy boughed trees seen
There stand thegen; reeve; and fat geese lay, there
People do sport and horses neigh
Just follow down the earthen...

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I will wander like a gypsy seeking wisdom,
I will find it in each little knowledge system;
Each hair of beauty I'll split like a small atom,
And find in them the secrets hidden like stratum...

The world has...

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Fishing Holiday

A kingfisher sitting on the old harbour wall
Listening to the geese from the mud flats call
I'm here for some sea fishing until after the thaw
Braced against the north wind so cold and raw

No Kamikaze...

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If you were to ask me the place I like the most
it would be Porth Joke Beach on the Cornish coast. 
Where walking down to the beach on the path so steep
red poppies and corn...

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I suppose you've been wondering 
Why your eyes don't smile anymore.
Why your once radiant optimism
has drowned in concrete mud.
Why the future, even tomorrow,
suddenly tastes so bitter 
on your palate.
Why the rainbow is frowning 
at you;...

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The stream.

Sunlight Flicks through branch and falls
On shady copse and tree lined halls.
To scatter bright on dreaming stream,
Which flows amongst the woodland scene.
Then on to twist through leafy glade
And out into the light - Parade.


It...

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The pale red sun rises on the eastern horizon casting light upon a low crescent
moon and morning star.  A Whip-Poor-Will with a sore throat sings his love song to
his mate or maybe to the...

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If we had known he was coming
we would have played our drums
till our fingers bled.
Our women
would have decorated themselves
painting their bodies and nails
and weaving colours into their hair
they would have laid their wrappers
down on the...

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Before the promised coming of the Messiah,
Men sought shelter in caves near the sacred sea.
Rites of purification they practiced there,
Seeking for a new light to set them free.		

We prepare a shrine worthy of Him,
For He...

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Cold, like fire ants, within sweaters bite,
White and green and gold adorned is the site; 
The cold breeze as though dipped in ice seas blows,
Sky and fog and cloud are on fashion shows...!

Cardinals, robins, and...

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The walking trail around the lake
crunches like a full bags of crisps 
at a Fall football game.

The oak leaf refuse curls frost burnt inward.
The manmade lake still, motionless 
a covering of snow cone slurry 
drapes...

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Virgin crystal flakes lucent feature,
Journey downwards from heaven,
Falling round shimmering nature. 
Limbs Stretch High. A numbing breath driven,
Winter wet embrace forgiven.

First Winter of favorite song,
The early snow buntings arrived
Chirping engagingly along
Plaintive worlds soul better contrived
With...

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You in blue

We relaxed on that golden sandy beach listening to aquamarine sea lapping gently, there were flower beds of periwinkle,  lavender and navy petunias that compliment white striped azure sky, so blissful you...

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