Tag: poem

  • Pattern

    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…

  • 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…

  • Very happy Venus is following me to my new lodgings in the Surrey Hills

    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…