Freedom

after car dies
renting one
to go plant shopping

Early trip to the grocery store

dancing to disco music
while 20-something employee
wonders what it is

new pin on chest
love-bugs
still joined

my only vacation this summer -
sipping beer
from Newcastle, UK

first iris unfurls
in the monrning sun

trees dance

in the sunset glow-

spring breeze

in the spring breeze
escorting the blackbird's flight
petals in a flutter

in dawn's silence,
the din of restless thought, shushed
by gardenia scent

watercolour dawn,
pansies that sway in the breeze;
like potted butterflies

memories forsaken
the golden yellow
of this one rose

dawn light
nothing else
in the spider web


***

lumière de l'aube
rien d'autre
dans la toile d'araignée
.

daffodils dead

daffodils dead
dandelions and daisies
take over

© 2008, gerald england

digging garden bed
enjoying the warm soil
through my fingers

a chorus of frogs
beyond the high gate
vastness settles in

11:30 Mass

Lunch at In-Laws

Children playing

in backyard garden

Wife holds my hand

profusion of color

morning commute
rainbow of lillies
swaying in the breeze

Flowers for Alfons (April, 1945)

Along the rivers bank,

Poppies erupt

Staccato, crimson bursts

Seeping slowly

Into the Oder

blossoms opening
and my grateful heart, too —
impossibly wide

(Cross-posted - with photo and story -
at But Wait, There's More!)

theatre bar

drinking
with dodgy characters
from Dostoyevsky

green velvet shoes
and she turns
her ankle

recouping...

after shift from hell
ordering plants online
to decompress

yet another april shower ...

the peach tree
standing
in the driving hailstone

chaffinches arrived

you children of spring
the first victim of traffic
was buried today


te kevään lapset
aikaisin täällä ja nyt jo
kuolleena maassa

cool morning

cool morning
in these spring leaves
fall colors

late morning
chatting with the new plants
to see who goes where

Who wins?

dumpster stink
jamines vine flowering
sweet smell dominates

weekend fun

when the car was fixed
doing my first plant runs
with weekly shopping