At Home

(Sijo*)

The familiarity of home, garden, my two cats,

the little town where I live and the people who are my friends,

all these and autumn — ah, glorious autumn! — they nurture me.

*A three-line Korean form explained at dVerse Form For All: Out of Asia

Dead Tree

He gives the dead tree trunk

a light shove. It rocks 

in its socket of earth.

Confusion of Season

The usual mild Autumn.

Again the plants are fooled,

blooming as if in a second Spring —

yellow gorse everywhere along the roads, 

gardens profuse with new colour.

Submitted for dVerse Poetics — Spring

Visiting Maureen

vistas of trees

from all windows

A New Morning

A new morning.

Sunshine.

Birdsong.

My mood lifts,

grows gentler.

Contrasts

The small boy

on the lawns of Crystal Castle

runs happily past,

oblivious of the huge white quartz
at least four times his size.