Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
09 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Woodchuck Tags: every woodchuck, lives with graves, Lori McElrath-Eslick, ponds, seeds, spies squirrels' lairs at dawn, trees, Woodchuck
illustrated by Lori McElrath-Eslick
Every woodchuck lives
with graves, trees, ponds and seeds-spies
squirrels’ lairs at dawn
.
Jonathan Kellerman has collaborated on books with his wife and his son. “Every family speaks its own language,” Jesse Kellerman says. “For us, it was stories.”
09 Nov 2013 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: birds, blows its spatter, clouds suck, dirt, drips off nose, flies, hawks, haze, heads, hold the dirt, i_Cloud, leaves, matter, mud, past mountains, pattern, rains, scatter soil, screens it, seeds, splotches eyes, thuds, trees
What will the cloud hold next?
More than raindrops?
The i-Clouds
“got the dirt”
on you!
holds it in the haze
flies it past mountains
screens it from hawks.
Then rains it down as mud
that thuds on heads:
splotches eyes
drips off nose
blows its spatter
on what matters.
Birds
sift for seeds
to grow trees
that grow leaves
to scatter into soil
for clouds to suck
to “hold the dirt”
on you.
12 Oct 2013 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: Autumn, baby green, burst, dew, gourd, gourds, russet, russet reds, sap, seedlings, seeds, siesta, snow, spring, summer, tender shoots, winter
Gourds
Gourds hold seeds;
birth them when they need
to burst for winter’s
long siesta under snow.
Seeds grow seedlings;
tender shoots in baby green
spring up to sun
look for their mom.
Unfurl fresh leaves
reach out from stem
when summer’s dew
wakes sap in them.
“Til Fall again
grows gourds in russet reds
with seeds that burst
for winter under snow.
31 May 2013 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: aluminum siding, baby, beak, brass dragonfly, explorer, feels, hears, knocks, pecker, pecks, screen, seeds, smells, tastes, woodpecker
Baby woodpecker
pecks
aluminum siding
brass dragonfly
screen.
Her beak
smells
feels
tastes
hears.
Pecks
seeds;
knocks upon my deck.
Huge red-headed peck-er!
5/31/13
25 May 2013 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: chickadee, dates, fates, genes, goldfinch, mates, mates and dates, nature, plants, seeds, snow, species, yellow fates
How could it be
the sleek goldfinch
I see
each day
became the
round chickadee in winter’s snow upon the deck?
Now I know
they share the seeds
the genes
the species
mates and dates
and yellow fates.
May 25, 2013
14 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Family Tags: adventure, core, different, discovery, dwarfed, flowing, fruity, juices, kinship, reflection, riddle, sap, seeds, snappy bites, tender, tree
Fruity
Someone called me :
“Fruity”
today.
Did he see my core?
Or tender skin?
Reflection in the light?
Dwarfed stem?
Snappy bites to offer?
Juices flowing?
Sap?
Kinship with my seeds?
Fallen from a tree?
Or me: different?
An adventure in discovery?
25 Aug 2012 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: drain, invisibility, rub, seeds, Shakespeare
And therein lies the rub…
Within the tub
Cause down the drain
Go joy and pain
The merry team descend.
I wonder where
Below the air
My skin cells flow
I cannot know
Their end!
They flow and plant
The seeds to ants
Sprouting roots
Under boots
‘Til seedlings grow again.
I think exists that which I see
when in fact invisibility
is real as me!
Thank you Shakespeare!
Jeanne Poland
24 Aug 2012 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: brew, Crazy-glue, hummingbird, nature, outdoors, peckers, seeds, squirrel, vacation
Hummingbird found something new
Upon my deck today.
Feeder joined with Crazy-glue
From squirrel’s mad foray!
Robins, peckers, finches, doves
Suskines, sparrows flew-
Aghast at squirrel’s leaping loves
Of nuts and seeds and brew.
Squirrel flew and danced and jumped
In whirling desperate view-
His wingless leaps left him dumped
In frenzied Crazy-glue!
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 