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Tree skeletons
acquire accoutrements
each passing day
pale green regalia
not the deep green
of Summer when the
change in color
is so gradual
as to be imperceptible
nor the fleeting riot
of color of Fall
no, in Spring,
ephemeral evanescent
slight light green
appears by the moment
right before my slow eyes
as I discern
shadows in the woods
a flash of white tail
deer fleet of foot
fly through the brush
dancing to the deep trill
of the wood frogs and
the echoing, haunted cries
of pileated woodpeckers
in the sudden density
of the fast-growing woods
inside the booming forest
whilst where I sit
at the edge of wood
bumble bees hum
and magically lift off
the teaming ground
and fly to the sky
where birds sing to mates
sweet songs of desire
in a crescendo of new life
as you have sung to me
for nearly thirty years
in an ever-changing
ever-growing love
whilst a breeze caresses
a newborn leaf
that tingles to its touch
as I thrill so very much
to the searching clasp
of your hand in mine
(As yet another killer, this time on the campus of Santa Barbara, California, is identified as possibly having Asperger’s syndrome, I, as a Bipolar Aspie, offer this poem written to my Aspie husband for May 14, 2014, on the occasion of our 25th wedding anniversary, to show that not all people with Asperger’s reach for a gun and are violent.)
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May 28, 2014 | Categories: Animal Columns & Poems , Asperger's & Autism , Asperger's and Love , Music of Nature , Poetry , Spirituality , Videos | Tags: Anniversary poems , Asperger's and marriage , Asperger's and violence , Asperger's marriage , Asperger's stereotype , Bees , Birds mating , Deer , Growth , Love , Old love , Santa Barbara killing spree , Seasons , Sights of Spring , Sounds of Spring , Spring , Trees in Spring , Wedding Anniversary , Woodpeckers , Woods | 3 Comments
In my former life I was a bee.
Why else would I keep sticking my nose
into the private, pollinated parts of flowers?
In my former life I was a turtle.
Why else would I hunch my shoulders
into a seeming shell, my back a carapace
to shield me from a sometimes dangerous world?
In my former life I loved thee.
How else could I account for my “knowing” you
from before the first time we met,
for “seeing” the you in your inner depths?
Some would say I risk damnation
for a belief in reincarnation.
Yet this answer satisfies me on so many levels
and requities my thirst, quieting my myriad of questions
that the old belief system did not.
Unpopular in the west,
woven into the fabric of life in the east
in which I clothe myself, sewn by a strong affinity,
a strange familiarity,
attraction mystifies.
Most of us cannot remember
the details of the other lives,
and are left with fractured fragments of the past
glistening like sea glass in our hands, on the seashores of our minds,
trying to piece together a picture
of a previous existence.
Love is timeless and mysterious
and though I dread the inevitable,
the loss of our life together
in this life,
I know we will be together again in the next and the next
ad infinitium
for something as sacrosanct as our love
is eternal.
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September 11, 2013 | Categories: Flowers , Loss , Macro Photography , Meditations , Poetry | Tags: Attraction of flowers , Bees , Eastern religion , Eternal love , Past lives , Reincarnation , Turtles | 8 Comments
Je suis tres intime
avec les fleurs
I am very intimate
with the flowers
and fear I am intruding
into their secret
world of silent sensuality
visited by bees and butterflies
and other tiny creatures
seduced by their siren song
of quiet sexuality
seductive to all
who pause to peek
inside their blooms
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July 26, 2013 | Categories: Macro Photography , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Attraction of flowers , Bees , Flowers , Insects , Intimacy , Sensuality , Sexuality of flowers | 18 Comments
Drunk with
the nectar of you,
I fall into your arms,
helplessly inebriated
and sweetened
by your Love.
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July 11, 2013 | Categories: Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Awakening , Bees , Dahlias , Honey , Inebriation , Love poetry , Spirituality | 16 Comments