They called the wind lackadaisical
but because she in freedom blows
the world will never ...........lack for daisies
*
They thought the moon needed cloudwings to fly but the next night they
saw her soar alone in the sky.
*
Herr heron no longer the freed herring hearing
*
Watching raindrop beads spark seeds into weeds..
was his creed.. and not what any other had decreed
*
One said that marriage is a tree.. do not break its boughs
Another said: as a river flows beyond banks, the past's vows.. to the
present bow..
Spring melts snowflakes. Joy pops balloons. Roots burst
the vase. Love breaks the cage.
*
Dracula was free to think God's gladiolas gaudy.. and to dislike
the morning luster.. of a seabubble cluster.
*
Some like earthworms eat dirt and die.
Others like caterpillars become butterflies.
*
Bell tongs chime... bird flight time
*
If there were left 1 sheet
of Shakespeare's original words
Picasso would it erase that he could ink the space.
*
Those who ordained that a fork goes to plateleft
are the ones who use it as a fleshspear. Their rules bind
none.
*
Free are the butterflies who as babies feasted on the leaves of
the trees round Cherry Blossom Bay
*
A Dragonfly on daffodil alights.. having donned a more dazzling dress
as well as the gift of flight
*
ICICLES
On a March clothesline
.. transparent icicles in a row
.. dripping and glowing in the
sun..
Exclamation marks! ! ! ! !
a sentence of joyful exclamation
! ! ! ! ! ! !
with no need of explanation
And on the gutters..
dripping into clear pools below
icicles of varying lengths
.. a transparent music scale
sing of spring
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
....
(to L Umana)
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