Long Leafage Poems

The Birch

We’re hailed by changes of weather always
Pouring, wind, rain, gale and hurricane
Our dried barks and twigs easily departs
When they lavishly attack in season
Enchanting imbibe of full moon lights
We play with millions twinkling stars
Cloud travels...

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I often set out for a hike on a lovely day of roaming,
how I love to explore the forest and countryside alone;
going deep into the lush green woods under an azure sky, 
I am mesmerized...

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When the world was youthful
spiderwebs sang as they were spun.
Language was woven in the air
as accents of winds and trees
conveyed by an eloquent sky.
Untrammeled meadows annunciated
upon the lips of dens and burrows
scooped by shrew, mole,...

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       KOMOREBI

        Pushing dense bush walking in pathless forest
        under tree canopy, continuous.
  ...

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untangle,
leave the shadow of Death behind,
at Death's dark door.
Filled w/ Light
the Heart grows wings,
flaps up into the sky free.
Below, She moves,
a dance, through soft, dappled sunshine.

The Five Imperishable Gnostic Trees in Paradise
stand along the roadside,...

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FRAGILE BUT DETERMINED

When leafage brushes hues of gold and brown
painting a canvass delighting the senses. The mind
tickled in imagination to wander, wonder round.
Amidst tweaks heard from brittle lumber's arms:
a seasonal alopecia brought by winds, crisp-cold.

Breezy...

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Last night the Alder so deeply rooted in the hedgerow
was shot through by a bolt of climatic vulnerability.
I heard the smoking gun,
heard the clangorous salvo, the snap and break,
heard the unflexed crook of it pivot...

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From beneath a long frozen earth
ancient human bones surface,
they rise far enough for an eye-socket
to be seeded.

A sapling grew from out of that skull.
In time the skull became a tree.

Like many tree’s its skeleton was...

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Oh, if I were an elephant
   I sure would march around and rant
      with loud and deep instructive roar
         demanding...

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I relish the composure of evening
Which slithers far into hidden  places
That beyond  uptown’s  jarring noise,
I kick off my voguish  high heels
And  wander through burst of evergreen:

A quiet grove where young...

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When the world was youthful
spiderwebs sang as they were spun.
Language was woven in the air
as accents of winds and trees
Untrammeled meadows annunciated
upon the lips of dens and burrows.
Fresh bathed daisies signed a speech
as they swayed,
buttercups...

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The sun has set behind the golden hills
And silence reigns within the forest deep.
The dice of life fall as the goddess wills.

The shadow grows, the birds are fast asleep,
A somber night is beckoned by the...

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Ode to the Flowers- -A Sonnet 

So fine flowers, your colors so bright.
the way in the wind you flap, wallow and soar,
Invades my mind day and through the night,
Always dreaming about the pleasant or.

Let me...

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This Fall the woods in West Virginia
will blast out loud with a blazing plethora
of audible colors
that will begin gently with a rustle
then build upon that painted whispering
into a vocalization of such intense tones
that will eventually...

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I have loved these evening walks
through smoldering reeks,
ankle deep in haunted litter.
Loved
the flicker of mottled hawks,
flaming across a waterborne sky,
the soft mats of moss upon late shadows,
the silver shimmer of small paw prints
in muddy puddles.
Those...

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How Do I Love a Cheerful God--

My cheerful God, you embrace me to fight.
How I love the way you hunt, walk and call,
Invading my mind day and through the night,
Always dreaming about the smooth catchall.

Let...

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WALKING THE AUTUMN PATH


Cracklings
under my feet
breathing fragrant leafage
of reds and golds, brown twigs of trees-
fallen.


Juicy
succulent pears,
big-bright orange pumpkins
fill  crates  in  the  grocery  store-
displayed.


Fresh-baked
breads, apple pies
flirting sweet to my nose,
I ...

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I cannot fathom all the things I've tried,
To at last, find comfort in your presence,
to turn the tide, and prove my time well spent,
Then toss all disillusioned thoughts aside.
Oh strife, oh strife, I pray through...

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Along the coastal areas
in wetlands and by creeks
the tiger snakes are waiting
alert, with bloated cheeks.

They hide in expectation
where timber rots away,
in matted vegetation
and leafage in decay.

Thick-bodied, plain or banded
right down to robust tails,
with brightly varied...

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cannot sleep
have to walk through the dark
to find myself

Sunup arrives
trundled out by painted clouds

for a melting instant
flamingos dance across
a shivering horizon

the day will warm its face
by thawing its smoky breath
on the back of a sleeping...

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Stained with little fingerprints,
echoed laughter of children's past.
Toys that were once longed for...
outgrown, forgotten, outcast.

Swing that once swayed piggy tails,
untamed leafage it only sways.
A trustee superhero...
the day, no longer, he saves.

In children that once loved...

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....is both dried berries and nut tree,
by the leafage, the sunlit the phizog,
oaks skirted the edifice's entree.

he never mentions his mother as unreal.
as I involve my mother, did he prevent her?

mawkishness -
spawned a popping sound,
What...

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