cavorting crown vetch
a flowering thicket
coloring summer’s carefree days
Sunflowers
beaming in the hot sun
best beheld from the cool
depths of woodland shade
Paradox
set free
by the fence
uninhibited and unafraid
delphinium bloom with abandon
Invitation
the whole wide world awaits
outside the garden gate
Devotion
to be waited for
and received in love
is the soul of homecoming
Assistance
cloudy day
the lupin shine
a blue that smiles for the sky
Countryseat
in their meadow kingdom
lupin minarets flank
bluebirds’ castle
Green Glade
in the quiet
nature’s voice
is heard
Arrival
summer flew in
on the wide blue sky
and landed in the greening field
Strike Up The Band
a violet and white
parade of quaker ladies
adorns May’s main street
On The North Side
shade shelters the cold
allowing winter to persist
between pickets and pines
Preparation
mended fence
the paddock waits
for green grass and grazing
Glimmer
glinting ice
in the snowy field
a wink from spring
The Geography of Time
snow recedes
with the mysteriousness
of spring’s birth
Orchard Dance
wind swirls
skirts of snow
at the feet of trees
Quiet White
bright blue sky
hushed by clouds
quiet white surrounds
Keeping
pickets bravely attempt
to keep the sunshine
in the winter yard
Off Season
the summer house
in winter entertains
snow and cold
Quiet Courage
bowed to the forces of nature
resilience is the heart
of the wind swept pine
Marker
in January
old views
feel new
Held
lichen blooms
on the granite post
barbed wire holds
the cold
Divination
the lean of the fence posts
divines the lay of the land
Sentry
the bluebird box
stands sentry
over winter’s weathering
of the field
Three Berry Cottage
at the meadow’s edge
where the woods begin
three berry cottage awaits
her chance to comfort and contain
Grazing
delicious is
the final feast
of fresh grass
A Gate With A View
the world awaits
outside the garden gate
Unity
keeping things together
rather than apart
the old fence embraces
autumn’s abundance of goldenrod
Hedgerow
Fall must climb
a fence of color
to steal away summer
Picket
in need of a patch of blue
the blue picket fence will do
Unseen
beneath the white
in the waking earth
seeds begin their first stirrings