Long Runoff Poems

I loathe feeling under the weather...,

especially when nasty elephant 
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine 
struggle to band together
loosely analogous to voters
standing in a queue
waiting to cast their vote
(while...

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"Phew! got here in time to catch The Glacier Discovery Train. This journey is to be seen
to be believed. I am in Anchorage, Alaska. I am so out of breath running to the station.
Right, that's...

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Water moves continually Over land, evaporation and transpiration 
common chemical substance 
essential to all forms of life 
 the substance  has a solid state, ice,
 and a gaseous state, water vapor.
About 1,460 teratonnes (Tt)...

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THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART TWO
CÓRDOBA / QURTUBAH   950 AD / 339 AH

From Madinat al-Zahra
and the City of Córdoba, the roads
to the Renaissance are renamed and
traveled, patrolled and protected, routed
and projected by the Umayyad...

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Education Secretary Ellen,

Some of us
on the EarthCare Team
and also the Transport Solutions Committee
for special projects
are wondering
and, frankly, hoping

Your green STEAM students
and teachers
might research,
design,
and help residents paint
a historically accurate
AND polyculturally exquisite
series of murals

On our two-tiered
upper, more...

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Yale’s friday “spring fling” was a soggy success - both as a concert and super spreader event. My groove-spirit was dampened by weather and a final I had the next morning. 

I pose here tonight,...

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Climber
         by Odin Roark

Reality readied its chance
 
Ascent of an alpine face
Traversing ice and cold
Challenging steel axe and rope 
Such was the pulsating vibration 
Facing another dawn

That...

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Yup, you red correctly,
     this noggin must go
     perhaps donated
     to the Salvation Army, or Good Will
cuz, said atrophied cranial
   ...

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Sit down here on this mountain pine covered ridge
Wait for the mid-morning sun, about ten o’clock,
See now Blue Point canyon and air turn thick blue
“Look!  Look Mom!  It’s blue.”, the whole air and...

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Nestling in my realm, as you host a daydream,
Reveling in breeze of my splendor evergreen,
I welcome you to my domain of rhythmic trills
Where roam the blue jays, robins, and crossbills
Feeding on berries, frolicking with hatchlings,
Singing...

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The poet never asks
for rhyme with reason,
this would be treason
to a romantic heart...

All good lyrics
play their lyrical parts--
true writers and players 
true to lyrical hearts--

and lovers having taken 
that forever vow, will not
their hearts beat...

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I long to walk the hills today
    among bare trees that dance and sway
    where leaves, now flightless, stories tell
    where damp and rotting, earthy smells
...

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The snow brings life, mine's a short cold one 
        Being pushed around in fear of the sun
          ...

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The river is at autumnal peace
The spring runoff months long past.
The sun has mellowed, shrinking shadows.
Birds that once graced this glade
Have assayed the air and arched the horizon.
There is a gentleness in grass and tree—
A...

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Incidental Catch 
‘The catch of non-fish species’

At the town’s cusp, terraced homes blaze out.
The mill and the green jetty wane to abandoned garages.
Kept, like trophies, by the type of men who have love affairs
with themselves....

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War with nature's a losing one,
it's just like spitting at the sun
No matter what, nature has won.
It is not fun. It is not fun.

Mankind can rape the forests broad,
with axe and chainsaw, trees are sawed,
but...

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I came upon a small and narrow stream
where there was a continuous flow.
Its liquid sounds were fresh and light
and played music in my ears.

 Its current ran from high to low
gaining speed as it traveled...

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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91oRl8DvHQL._AC_SY679_.jpg (link to image "The Lost Cow"
“I am not lost,” said the cow
“I am just not found.”
And so he wandered through
The plains aimlessly as 
Though he had no purpose
And as he wandered he
Began to see...

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The iridescent raven perched upon pilings
By just one lake in Friesland's beautiful wetland outings

His golden beak and orange legs with claws set off
Against black feathers that glisten and are a rain runoff

Carefully he watches the...

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Seen through the red in her eyes…
The fireplace from whence burns her soul
Life begins with this broken promise
A lost trust, delivered with a royal seal

The silence separated by their erupting spatter 
Between her teardrops a...

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Near Lake Fane the sheep graze in thy green meadow.
At ease, ewes are seen nibbling field blades most fine,
where fierce lion's shape may cast no grave shadow
or shows dire snake hole.
For ye make sure thy...

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"Positive impact after a disaster, as people show humanity as they come together and give their hearts to help." Quote by poet
 
Rainfall falls so quickly, and heavy 
High water overflowed the river levee 
Causing...

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Winds blowing
Hard against the house
Buffeted
Shuddering
Hunkering down for the worst
As the front rolls in

Rain pounding
On the metal roof
Voices raised
Just to hear
Rivers running through the yard
Creating trenches

Light flashes
A two-count and boom
Puppy dog
Snuggles close
Hills outlined by strobed flashes
Petitions...

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A deputy leads the way
up a winding mountain road
to a pullout by a bridge.
From there, we hike up rabbit trails
and shimmy over logs
with late spring runoff
rushing underneath.
	At last we come 
to a grassy fringe of...

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Toxic mine runoff
Used in biofuel
As a key ingredient to support
Alternative solutions in areas
Where they exist and are plentiful.
Sustainability and keep a healthier
Future. In mind.
Using our waste to help pretext our
Future. The America of tommorrow
Includes hardwork...

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