Just Around the Corner

Just around the corner 

there is always something 

that wasn’t there yesterday. 

Maybe just a black shiny pebble 

tossed from a child’s hand, 

  maybe a new fence erected 

    maybe tiny weeds growing,

flowering amid drying grasses. 

Noticing these tiny changes 

in a world gone mad 

shows me that 

   the black shiny pebble, 

      the new fence, 

        the tiny flowering weeds 

know nothing of the state of our planet. 

They have no ears to hear the chaos, 

   nor eyes to watch out for a new face in the news. 

But they are always just around the corner.

“There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. 

It is the idea of something around the corner,”

Gilbert K. Chesterton, writer

(1874 ~ 1936)

Into the Green Grass

When I let my thoughts

roam free

some wander into tomorrow 

~ into the green grass 

of a nebulous future,

feeling my mind’s toes curling

into that distant moist wet grass 

with a longing 

that pulls me away from today.

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful 

as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”

~ Roman Payne, novelist and poet

Jet’s Planting

 

Planted

Tiny cat grass seeds 

in a makeshift flower pot. 

No need for a green thumb 

or a wide acre of soil 

only this little pot filled with 

soil for the little seeds to be 

harvested by my kitty’s sharp teeth.

“Grass must bring life.”

~ Susan L. Marshall,

All the Hope We Carry

Steadfast

Too fast

Too much

But never enough

Do the trees ever wonder?

The green grass just grows.

And beneath the soil

Life goes on.

Slow walk

With grace

There is always enough

“True inward quietness…is not vacancy, but stability 

- the steadfastness of a single purpose.”

~ Caroline Emelia Stephen,
(1834 ~ 1909)

On a Morning Walk - Summer Grasses

Tall, slender green grasses 

grow and bend to the light

seed heads awaiting maturity

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”

~ Walt Whitman

Spring Awakening

Leaf buds cautiously unfurl,

  tulips mirror the sun,

their fronds nestle with lush grass.

“When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.”

~ John O’Donohue

On an Afternoon Walk - Waiting

mucky, muddy

sloppy and wet

snow covers as

soft as old quilts

Christmas deer glistened

waiting for snow melt

green grass for grazing

showers of fresh rain

““Is the spring coming?” He said “What is it like?…..

It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine….”

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden