An Aspen Serenade

Look up look up The aspens bid Silent sentinels Waiting expectantly To quiver once more On unseen breezeAbandoned unto joyTiny clapping cymbalsHung on slender petiolesAn airy symphony For whose earsThis silent tinkling For creatures here Or those with angel wings Is the breeze itself The wake of joyous cherubs Chasing amongst branches Tempests and ragingContinue reading “An Aspen Serenade”

Snow Fences

Undulating with the land Lining roads like concert chairsOr spiked hair on shaven heads Stalwartly just standing there Oft’ a perch for falcon’s rest Summer frame for winding vine Holding firm they pass the testBraving weather of all kinds Catching troves of tumbling weeds Flat toothpicks knit in stout rows Cannot bind the blowing windContinue reading “Snow Fences”

Kansas Wind

It skips across the rolling plains Down grassy streams, o’er rippled ponds Bends trees and landscape to it’s will Then swirls away to somewhere Oz Clutching steering wheel tight Rocking through buffeting sounds Will we also fly away Spinning up and round and round To land in someplace OzNo Munchkins seen along this path NotContinue reading “Kansas Wind”