judith meskill - soc.media.rocks

"... To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few ..."
 
Emily Dickinson

and when you cast your gaze upon this flower
remember it was born before the bees
its pollen spread by beetles' crawling power
amidst the sprawling branches of its trees ...
 
judith meskill

today i walked with fall you see
with brown leaves drifting from the tree
now floating in the river's arms
balanced atop its fluid charms ...
 
judith meskill

"... Sweetest of the flowers a-blooming
In the fragrant vernal days
Is the Lily of the Valley
With its soft, retiring ways ..."
 
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Lily of the Valley

our garden's filled with memories
of spring and summer at their peak
nature's finest accessories
right here in whispers, still do speak ...
 
judith meskill

"... The splendor of a Burmah
The Meteor of Birds,
Departing like a Pageant
Of Ballads and of Bards --
 
I never thought that Jason sought
For any Golden Fleece
But then I am a rural man
With thoughts that make for Peace --
 
But if there were a Jason,
Tradition bear with me
Behold his lost Aggrandizement
Upon the Apple Tree -- ..."
 
Emily Dickinson

"... Will there really be a "Morning"?
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
 
Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
 
Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Men from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "Morning" lies! ..."
 
Emily Dickinson

"... Eden is that old-fashioned House
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away.
 
How fair on looking back, the Day
We sauntered from the Door -
Unconscious our returning,
But discover it no more ..."
 
Emily Dickinson

one day
one topic
the environment
a bubble
'midst the green
my bubble
is green
as green as i can make it ...
 
judith meskill, for blog action day

"... Some such Butterfly be seen
On Brazilian Pampas --
Just at noon -- no later -- Sweet --
Then -- the License closes --
 
Some such Spice -- express and pass --
Subject to Your Plucking --
As the Stars -- You knew last Night --
Foreigners -- This Morning -- ..."
 
Emily Dickinson

i've got pollen on my knees,
i love pollen if you please,
i've got pollen on my face,
so much pollen every place,
flowers full of pollen fire,
of which i will never tire ...
 
judith meskill

this zinnia did lure me in to see,
the softest pinks and yellows that could be,
her cup of light, adrift on a green sea,
without a single butterfly or bee ...
 
judith meskill

tiger swallowtail
adrift on red petaled sea
unfurling its sails ...
 
judith meskill

"... I have praised everything that exists,
but to me, onion, you are
more beautiful than a bird
of dazzling feathers,
heavenly globe, platinum goblet,
unmoving dance
of the snowy anemone
 
and the fragrance of the earth lives
in your crystalline nature ..."
 
Pablo Neruda

i watched these two work side by side awhile,
like two old friends, indeed they made me smile,
so mesmerizing, with their graceful style,
magical moment for my flickr file ...

judith meskill