Tag Archives: nature

tree

                                       time’s been good to me

                                       my hide
                                       though bronz’d
                                       by the seasons
                                       manicur’d
                                       be crawlers and flyers
                                       and autographers
                                       still holds fast on firm feet

                                      generations
                                      of admirers
                                      of passing glances
                                      have I outliv’d

                                      and might someday
                                      my leaves never reawaken
                                      your memories
                                      your snapshots
                                     be bless’d
                                     for making me immortal

rest stop

                                    sharing big bird rock
                                    with a smaller bird whose wings
                                    must flap thrice as hard

Nessie of Anaaski

relative or hoax               
of Columba’s miracle?   
more tricks on our eyes?

Love’s Legacy

have always been our spirits
as fancies my heart?

were then We there
at first season’s weaning
when yawn’d and stretch’d a microstar?

night with day to grace
and serenade glacial clouds
whose joy wept over thalassic plains
and bless’d loftiest peaks with child
from Eden
to her tributaries
to now?

so shall We be
though Time be drown’d
in Her foreverness

“Marco!”… “Polo!” said the Hippos

though they define us—
minor gray matter
no forefinger-to-thumb
evolv’d instinct

some of us—
feel we not…something?
even delight in family frolic?

aspiration

in my palm
Star of Dayspring

no, a universe
in itself

th’ offspring of aeons

such wonder
such beauty
to hold and behold

pray, forever and a day

rock in Borrego

in all tongues
speaks this Mountain
despite her sure muteness—
and all eyes listen
to her beauty
to her majesty
o’er Lower Heaven
o’er Earth in Bloom

change

outside my window
Nature’s shedding her cocoon—
metamorphosis