Long Leafing Poems

In the Last days of January 2016 father Antony was wondering where he could find a person or persons who would be able to clear the badly overgrown Church garden He had inherited just two...

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'The Journey'

Sight.
Sound.
Smell.
Taste.

The trains,
the tracks,
the rush, the haste.

The sweeties and toffees,
newspapers and coffees,

Cases and bags, e-cigs and fags,
pasty and tanned, iphone in hand,

The people who come and the people who go
and the Taxis that wait, as...

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Heaven’s chill clouds hide blazing stellar light.
Winter wet with fresh white flakes falls tonight.
A morose man maunders at his baby grand, 
Keys awaiting the touch of bony hands.

A sunlit melody from two souls’ springs
With a...

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I am but an ordinary woman resting in my easy chair after a long day of work.
However I am about to transform myself into a great explorer. 
I travel through the many realms of space...

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Feather to feather on a branch, this early winter morning,
Are they planning outings for the day or of grave dangers warning?

A predator comes swooping by, a red-tailed hawk in plunder.
As of one mind they fly...

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Stand stranger, O Love, stand stranger,
Stand straighter, and lift up thine eyes;
The wings of the sun sweep about us---
We, the gift of the earth to the skies.

We have done what the god has forbidden,
We have...

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Mindbodies unfold from embryonic seed
toward full living-loving 
sense-synthesizing leaf production,
full YangPower during warm light-drenched days of summer,
Earth’s rotation fuelling healthy growth,
yet weedy monopolizing tendencies as well.

Seed unfolding is our first longing half, 
maturing toward healthy...

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(Free Verse) 


Take time to see around you 
So much that we take for granted 
We all miss those little things 
Which mean much more in life 

We blindly make our way sometimes 
Not knowing...

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As he tipped her off with swollen eyes and words to cry. He tells himself a little lie, for she isn’t as fair as I. He hides his face of extreme sly, holding his breathe...

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In the dirty hands of poverty,
 Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment
 Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians.
 A sinecure of hard drugs
 To silence the lamentations of these birds of ill...

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I. 

In this august room
I can see ugly, light-brown shelves
with books inset
like miscut gems.

I can see the surrounding flat, white wall
that looks like the painters
used primer.

These chairs are pretty though,
with crimson leather
and gold-capped rivets,
but they
too
are...

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She sat there under a rooted lofty tree.. Shading branches and fanning leaves kept her company... The hissing of silence and the reigning of solitude driving her cold at home. She took a step out...

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I love how life in the midst of its wars, its killings, 
its behaviors so thoughtless and vile
will set set aside a moment every now and then
a moment to make us smile.

Little Women is a...

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When we communicate aggressively,
cynically narcissistic
about Earth's WinWin historical healthy wealth, ongoing
slow-grown into our great grandchildren's regenerative future,

We abandon globally universal passions
for mutual care-giving and receiving 
ego and eco-therapeutic cooperative missions,

We do not intend for the...

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T’was the night before Christmas
And in his outhouse
Sat Ja quietly listening         
To waltz’s, by Strauss.  (Really, he was leafing thru Penthouse)

His shitter was fitted
With all manner...

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Stop
Shedding and sowing
Begin bracing for burning
In land of melting
Pots

Was
The crews parallax
Of the trees
Which conceives
The lumberjack to
Saw?

Timber!

Reviled
But adored due to bark,
Chopped down and chastised a log mark
Famine yet fervid mouth of hell,
“Rollways”, or “skidways”, dread logs...

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One more day in the house
Cleaning up memories that took a 
family a lifetime to gather.
Passing on one by one they all left treasures.
Or better known to some as
"One mans trash another mans treasure"

How do...

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QUEST

Leafing through the pages of my life, there are moments
I would stop to reflect on each quest I had in the past. 
Growing up in confusion, whom and which family I did
belong, my quest was...

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Here we go around to explore bargains,
This downtown shopping brings sure encounters;
We loiter these grounds with mindset laid plain,
Leafing and breezing through noisy clutter.


We take our sweet time to look and enjoy,
No need to hurry...

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I picked up Grandma’s recipe book the other day…the one she made just for me…written in her own hand and filled with my favorite recipes.

On the first page of my cookbook…these words…always waiting for me…
‘It’s...

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A flood of grackles,
black-leafing the tree
who seem to’ve forgot
that its not
Winter;
it’s Spring and everything
is about to flower.

Eva says they are starling
and they may be.
She says they crowd the uncrowded 
barebranch trees and blot out
the sun...

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I was leafing through my mom’s old bible that’s sat on our shelf since she died
when two pieces of paper floated out and landed by my side

Two old photos I hadn’t seen before…photos I never...

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Sebastian Was His Name


There a single figured stood
In a land that no man claims
Leafing though an ancient book
And Sebastian was his name 

It was the first spring of the war
And with victory nowhere at hand
The...

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Hardly a Poem

Splinters embedded under my skin,
each memory a shard of stinging glass,

I see that I see it all now,
the infinite regrets meandering,
down foggy alleys of yesteryear,
as decades and moments come to pass.

Wearing my many...

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March

Sweet, bitter March,
last year tears haven’t dried out up 
till now and yet you
are already at the door,
knocking lightly!

Sadness is still flapping over my head like
a frantic goose, what have you brought with you
to silence...

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