Vanes Poems

Listen to the Wind

...
The wind leans in sideways to drink every word,
Just as sailors must tack sideways to go upwind.
It's only with angles we know the wind's wrangles.
Its riddles, scattered among willy-nilly answe...

Dancing Between Skies

...
I like the sky, it's always promising something.
It's a soothsayer for eyes scanning up, 
for signs, traces and lines of reassurance.  
It carries fragments of yesterday,
It continues its theme...

Craft Market at Pyree Fields

...
Each month a craft fair, 
is held at Pyree Fields in the open air.
All the local crafters are there,
proudly showing off their homemade fare.

Behind each stall, a pair of eyes stares,
hoping...

The Luggage Light Brings

...
Light arrives from its flight
wheeling behind its suitcase of shadows,
exposures, echoes and consequences.

It spills its hoard across the floor,
and gathers remnant dark 
remains from dim co...

Time- Like Feathers, Fly

...
Where have the years gone: 
like soft feathers
they float in the breeze of life;
fragile, wispy thoughts
to gather in, one by one 
and stroke with loving care,
smoothing edges
ruffled in the...

Autumn Falls Too

...What will be left after all the leaves
fall from the trees?
Who will be there to answer calls
when they come
ringing in the wee?
Hours after the rain has fallen to ground
we're dry like air
& ...

Weathervanes and Paper Planes

...All the people we meet in life
are like paper planes
who travel into our lives
atleast only once
at some point in our lives
maybe in our childhood years
and then take flight
onto greater altit...

We are the Fluid Wind

...Wind touches the earth. Pushing a branch, and jiggling a leaf, sometimes to points of breaking both. Forcing an umbrella to push sideways against it, or a wing to twist to stay steady. Sending a jagg...

Wind Vane Terns

...a flock of terns
face headlong into the wind --
compliant wind vanes...

Wind Vane Flock

...black capped terns in flock
line-up all pointing seaward
twenty-one wind vanes...

The Last 4 Years and the Coming Decade 1

...When the 21st century stepped into its third decade, the major tone of the world sharply switched. Internecine confrontation, cartelism and calumniation snaffled the high pitch, while comprehension, ...

The Old Homeplace

...I sift this charred and barren earth
     for one small piece
     of yesterday

Though all has melted like winter ice
     before a fierce and ruthless fire.
The mansion house,
     its latti...

Briefly Borrowed

...Boiled temperature gauges persist moving toward some rise,
Besought naught obtrude yonder worlds prevailing demise,
Barn weathered vanes, dared storms, spun tightly screwed,
Bear breathless trickl...

My Sun Room

...I've never known a fixed address.  I love the home we've made for three years in our rental house so I'm sad that it's now up for sale.  Last night, I sat in the sunroom thinking of how much I'll mis...

The Patient Owl

...Above, the Moon was a delight

Her silver face graced the night.

Moonbeams fell on branch and leaf

Then danced across the earth beneath.

She cast her glow on garden sheds

Her silver she...

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