FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: GRASS LEAVES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words grass and/or leaves, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on January 17th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Grass Leaves will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, January 25th between 3 and 5 pm PST

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Joan McNerney

Green Rain


I woke up

looked out

my window

and saw green

pouring down trees 

cascading over 

emerald grass


This noon

swollen wet

bursting water

now even heaven

is tinted jade

as birds linger

under branches

listening  




When I Was New


When I was new

and the world was new.


So many roads to wander

under a cerulean sky.

Forbidden fruits to savour,

forbidden lips to taste.


Full of promise, flowers

budding on the vine.

Their perfume covering

my fingertips.


I hurried through each day

alive with my songs.

The moon rose just for me and

stars burned just for me


Every morning brought

sunshine to my window.

Another day filled with wonder

waiting at my doorstep.


Spring was greener then.

When I was new

and the world was new. 


 


a glimpse of spring


shy blue morning black trees 

etch sky as children skip

over puddles 


bramble on snow soft birdsong


listening to water race down

stream winds gently kiss my

forehead 


grass shoots push thru first thaw

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