Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Wekiwa Springs, 2010

Born to churn opaquely, the circular headwater spring's
constant warmth respires in rocky black and sandy aqua
where a fuming rises under igneous prisms of mossy cling
and a darting mirth of minnows quicksilvers the grotto spa

near a drained lantern's orange glow in fast fading light.
Scant promise from a sandy trail though beige meadows
where the orange blaze on gnarled pine fades to white
and leads a squint astray under the coniferous boughs.

An arc of bending darkness mistaken in creeping fog
skulks crackled under the foot near grey palms in line-
heard by a black paw a scratch on the fallen bark log
under the swirl of Ursa Minor and a sky dimmed pine

which float overhead in a glass from reflective remove
and, in tracking the stars, you can sense the earth move.

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  1. 14 lines put to rigorous use. "you can sense the earth move" in tracking this poem.

    enjoyed!!

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  2. You camping Gerry Boyd? A trail is a promise, isn't it! A path to somewhere, forged already, but nontheless virgin if you've never traveled it. I wish I could post a picture in a comment. Yestarday I saw a sapling and beneath it, a perfect ring of mushrooms...like a crop ring. So bizarre. Nature. Always mysterious.

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  3. @Arkava: Cheers!

    @WandW: You didn't get the memo? We've dropped out of society and are living On The Road. (For more pedestrian details and lots of photos, check out

    http://astralnomads.blogspot.com

    ).

    Yeah, I love the fairy rings. There's a nice little anecdote about them in the author's introduction to Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems. I'd quote it here but I don't know it by heart and it's not online. If you can't find it, let me know. I may have a copy squirreled somewhere in the campervan.

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  4. On the road! Neat. Didn't know. I'll check that out -
    PG

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  6. Gerry,
    I really enjoyed reading this poem.
    It has a sense of your present abode about it and a lovely warmth.

    Best wishes,
    Eileen

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  7. You transported me to a grotto spa.

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  8. @eileen: thanks for the read. It's been cold in Florida so I have to create my own warmth. Ha!

    @tess: did you dig the beige?

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  9. I've said it before but, once again, you prove that nature poetry is far from dead, making the painter in me very happy. Keep fanning those embers.

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  10. @rToady: glad to make you happy. I can't even draw a stick figure so I have to try to render with words. Even that's a challenge.

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  11. I loved the way you wrote the sonnet

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  12. @gurang: thx. I've been on a sonnet kick lately. Why? I do not know. Ha!

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  13. this makes me want to find a woods, crouch within a full summer's or a spare winter's grove, and gaze up and all around. quite a nice arc, here.
    thanks

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  14. @Hareliquin: Thanks for making me :-)

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  15. From mirth of minnows to moving earth, this poem had delighted every nook and cranny of my poetic persona!

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  16. @Jinksy: Yes, part of this sonnet kick which disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared. I thought I was too old to go through 'phases'. Ha!

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  17. We live on a part of the springs. It is truly a gorgeous place. Thank you for this poem! Enjoy your travels!

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  18. thanks grace. it's an old one. funny, i live in florida now.

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