Published: 11 May 2026

First kite of Spring

Sun sets, luminescent promise, and you pose, appear
before spring flowers, before the end of snow, you climb
golden tendril unfurling, folded blossom straining to
join the stars, everything else lagging behind
                                       drift, tack, scud, yaw

you soar before the evening star sets, rest, float, as fading sun
stabs you lily gold, pale pink tulip, red rose, crocus mauve
climb, fragile shield, strive against waking stars, to onyx blue,
violet, indigo, sing, “it is true there may be a limit to string, but
                                             this heart must rise.”


More Poetry:

Mom on deck

Call for Mom.
She’s needed on deck;
no one else will do.
Who could possibly replace her?
Santa Claus or God?

Epochs of taste

Paleocene had a light tawny appearance and a semi sweet palate.
Eocene was the name of donkey in a play by Sophocles that became an eponym for stink.

silver

some people say
black is the colour of chic

ode to D. H. Lawrence

this evening, my neighbour’s red brick chimney,
lit by the dying sun, glows brilliant carmine
against a pure black blue sky that penetrates my blood
and fills me with insensate ecstasy

the perfection of spring

the moment before the rain
after the garden has been planted
while children play, the air riven
with silver laughter, let them be
soon it will rain

the frequency of spring

the frequency of spring
tunes in on any radio, any
electro-static device including
the nerve network of all operating
bio-chemical self aware systems

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Epochs of taste

Epochs of taste

Paleocene had a light tawny appearance and a semi sweet palate.
Eocene was the name of donkey in a play by Sophocles that became an eponym for stink.

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