- 04 Jul 201337View
Rugby Bees
Beery-plump bees
in gold-banded, furry rugby shirts –underarmour sleeves pulled
- 05 Jul 2013View
Garden
While they stretch and comingle
and whisper in dawn’s first hushed glow,
the weeds know what all - 07 Aug 20134View
Holly Tree at Christmas
The oily Holly drops scripted clots.
Drips encrypted globules,
on violated vellum, laid - 19 Oct 20132View
Inconstant Moon
That nightly changes, subtle and bold,
a pale ghost , or a beautiful beacon.The moon rocks - a
- 20 Oct 20134View
Roots of Restoration
It had been a struggle to survive,
in the end the natives won. The garden
was impenetrable; a - 26 Oct 20132View
Temple of The Peaceful Dragon. Kyoto ( 1696 )
Peace is palpable
in this gardenresplendent, calm
in empty spacefifteen rocks in groups
- 03 Nov 20133View
Seeds of Time
The sundial marks the day
in swathes of grass
foil for flirty blooms - 29 Nov 20131View
Garden of the Unrequited
Like a flower you were so beautiful
That a garden was made just for you
Such a fool am I
I should - 21 Dec 20134View
Winter Garden Snapshot
The Holly clots
with Christmas blood -
oozing from the wounds
of her own jagged - 14 Jan 201443View
The Garden
In raindrops falling curtain,
‘neath the bows of velvet trunk,
Lies in effervescent flush of - 06 Feb 201435View
For Broken Things
Let’s hear it for objects cast aside,
And ones that have lost their shine:
The silvered wood now - 07 Feb 20141View
Prayer
When gardening, I genuflect and pray
For ev’ry blessed seed to germinate
A ritual of compost, - 15 Feb 201434View
With my body...
Yes, In Bed Too !
We make love deep in a wood
quieting birdsong. In a hidden
corner of the - 09 Mar 201456View
Guttural Green Sound In The Garden
A guttural green sound in the wrecked garden.
Cough of spring earth
clearing its croaked winter - 16 Apr 201456View
The Garden is Grinning
The garden is grinning with daffodils.
Yellow winks, stealth-gleams,
from pulled-tight green - 20 May 201468View
Bumble Bee Learning About Flowers
Bumping home on random kerbs of air,
through summer’s glutted, cloying light,
glistening, sticky - 20 Jun 201441View
June the 20th
A dark, cold June day,
With drizzle and more.
Time to reminisce,
time to do some - 22 Jun 201422View
Frog Games
Someone threw the sun so high
It hung above impossibly longThe weeds climbed on each other’s
- 20 Jul 20141View
ET & Summer
Always searching for ET,
worrying, counting hours,
praying for her safe return...
A cool cat - 07 Aug 201423View
Hands in the Dirt.
Green Fingers -- Quiet mind.
The clamour of competing thoughts
jostling in my head subsides - 22 Mar 2019View
The Month Of March
Spring beckons
Dusk, fading daylight
Trees and leaves, vibrant with life
A choir of
- 28 Apr 2019View
Sunset In The Garden
Dusk sneaks up after another long and hot day
Silent and calming
A breeze seeps through the
- 24 Aug 2019View
In the Vegetable Garden. ( cinquain sequence )
Spinach ( Variety Japanese. )
going to seed.
A waft of honeyed - 24 Aug 2019View
A Garden is a Pocket of Discovery
The snow held a gentle sparkle in the weak sunlight. Suddenly parachuting past and afloat on the
- 09 Aug 2020View
Petals
When they fall I shall weep
- 09 Dec 2020View
It's a Big Buzzing Battle!
An observation by Potina the Flowerpot Doll (a recurring character in my poetry).
Hey! Guess the