Birds Fly, Sail and Swoop

 Gray downcast day;

Cluster fly climbs up window;

All's well in the world.

Mysterious nest

Tumbled out of the porch light

As I changed the bulb.

Not a speck of sun;

Clouds have conquered the sky;

Birds fly, sail and swoop.

Collette on the grass

Nibbles the tender blades:

Bovine lawn mower.

Spring is surely here--

Buttercups and their bright light

Shed yellow presence.

With proboscis out

Honey bee sucks the juices

From the passive bloom.

All in a huddle

Three goats communicating

What only they know.

Lighting on the bloom

Honey bee fits its color;

(Accessorizing)

Beauty Without Use

Chipmunk in feeder

Beats out his squirrel relatives

(Because he's light).

Late morning sunlight

Filters through the leaves once more;

(Chipmunk's back again).

Dandelion puff

Achieves total symmetry

Before it dissolves.

My good friend Mabel

Pokes her long nose through the fence

Just to say hello.

Beyond leaning fence

A dry stream bed doesn't run.

Beauty without use.

Swift and slithering

The snake has come to a stop;

(A permanent stop.)

Green and brown hanging

Together on some tree limbs--

Cycle of life/death.

Scent of fresh lilacs

Floating down on the May breeze

Precedes the purple.

A Work in Progress

 Bunny on my lawn

Freezes for eternity,

Then, poof! Disappears.

Shadow in bushes

Is the tree that stands behind--

Phantom or substance?

Olivia's ear

Ready for Collette's licking;

(That's what friends are for.)

In the field beyond

The girls dance and sing in French

A song from my past.

High in the blue sky

Round and around the hawks fly;

No lazy circles.

Woodpecker sculptures

Continue on the dead tree.

(A work in progress)

As if from nowhere:

Pale blue flowers near the road--

Spring awakening.

A firefly lands

On my notebook, as I write--

Good place, but wrong time.