Category: Poems
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Pattern
Donk,DinkBamboo chimes in a gentle breezeTing, tangSteel chimes a two tone melody.A rose-breasted hummingbird buzzes byFeeder-boundThe house wren insists the woodstack is hersCrickets channeling the background cosmic radiationA persistent click-drone as old as the universe.A phalanx of Canada geese heading south trumpet their exitThe doppler groan of passing cars on Old Church and Mount PleasantThe…
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The hedger and John Clare
Each hedge is loaded thick wi greenAnd where the hedger late hath beenTender shoots begin to growFrom the mossy stumps belowWhile sheep and cow that teaze the grainwill nip them to the root againThey lay their bill and mittens byeAnd on to other labours hie John Clare, in ‘May’ from ‘The Shepherds Calendar’ (1827) We can’t let…
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Kinship (a Poem)
Kinship Lima Cat sits at the edge of the kitchen window, Tail a-swishing, Muscles twitching. Hunger brings the be-wintered Chickadees To the feeder, Forays from the surrounding firs and pines. A black-capped bird alights on window ledge Strewn with sunflower seeds. Back arched, Lima tenses; Her eyes fixed and focused, Her paw…
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Very happy Venus is following me to my new lodgings in the Surrey Hills
As I arrived with a second car load of stuff at my new lodgings near Dorking in Surrey, I looked up and caught site of a wonderful thumbnail moon and there, hanging like a full stop on a moonbeam sentence was Venus. Its extraordinary how such a sight can move your scientific reason and poetic soul…
James T Jones 