To Converse A While
micropoetry and microprose inspired by nature
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
0038 cave dwellers
Primordial dwellings:
Humankind's first hearth and home.
From Earth's most sacred womb
We were birthed
To hunt and forage
In veld and vlei.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Sunday, 26 July 2015
0037 hyaena
Hyaena
Mythical creature of the sun
who's ancient gift of warmth
brought life to this cold earth.
From gift-giver to child-stealer,
the chill of your voice
draws from humankind
a visceral response.
Maligned, revered,
all before breakfast.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Saturday, 25 July 2015
0036 island soul 01
Dragon Trees of Socotra Island
This alien grandchild
writes her own story.
Sometime hostess
of Ancient Mariners,
Always a harsh mistress.
No false promise
of lush, sweet meadow,
she bares her strange and arid soul.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Friday, 24 July 2015
0035 greatness
Atitude
is
Everything.
Not always to the lordly
go the spoils
Not always to the lowly
fall the foils.
Greatness
is in
the daring.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Thursday, 23 July 2015
0034 window 01
the most
solid intention
is powerless
against the flow of life.
change creeps up
and flows through the cracks
to make
a window
for the universe to peer through.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
0033 great heart
Friend,
to rest in your understanding
is the sweetest gift.
To know
Friend,
that the beauty of yourself
chooses myself.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
0032 son of nobility
Lord of the Forest
of impeccable lineage.
A son of nobility.
Evader of Knight and Villein,
O ancient observer of
human folly.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Monday, 20 July 2015
0031 fossil
Helioceras heteromorph
Serenely survey from your
crenelated castle,
denizen of a long gone deep.
How strange
was your world?
©Kim Magennis 2015
Saturday, 18 July 2015
0030 serenade
Raise your voices with me little ones.
Sing of the wildness that flows in our blood.
Declare our spirit to mountain and forest,
let them know
we are free.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Friday, 17 July 2015
0029 tree sisters
How long, sisters dear, have we stood together on this blackened slope?
How many inconsequential moments have bent and shaped us?
With wind and rain on our skins, and rough earth under root, does it even matter?
©Kim Magennis 2015
Thursday, 16 July 2015
0028 aurora borealis
In painted skies
we hear the music of the universe,
we feel the cosmic pulse of life.
Never once alone,
in this vast realm of light.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
0027 leopard
The queen of the desert
rises to deepening shadows.
Masterfully self sufficient,
savagely independent.
Asking no mercy of the burning African Sun.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
0026 Serengeti Spring
Splendid Serengeti Spring
redolent with new life and sweet grass,
thrumming with wildebeest song.
An epic journey
of incomprehensible proportions.
Driven by ancient memory
countless hooves
crush the soil,
The eternal pulse
of vibrant abundance throbs.
Splendid Serengeti Spring
remind my soul of nature's bounty,
connect me to my roots.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Monday, 13 July 2015
0025 beluga beauty
Ghostly water dancer.
Sweetly sing
of mermaids
and castles
of sparkling ice
©Kim Magennis 2015
Sunday, 12 July 2015
0024 fascinated fish
Point of view
is everything.
What marvels
do you choose to see?
©Kim Magennis 2015
Saturday, 11 July 2015
0023 zebras
On grassy plains
of future uncertain
two heads are better than one
©Kim Magennis 2015
Friday, 10 July 2015
0022 Serengeti Sunset
Serengeti sunset
not always
dry and crowded with
bustling animal life.
Open
with endless possibilities,
Time and place
are only human constructs.
©Kim Magennis 2015
Thursday, 9 July 2015
0021 sun-child
What better way
To luxuriate
Than to bask with your belly
In African Sun?
What better way
To grow wise
Than to watch the ebb and flow
Of her Tribes?
©Kim Magennis 2015
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
0020 dark prince
the prince of darkness
on his day off
just hanging
©Kim Magennis 2015
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
0019 no dialogue needed
how many secret valleys
nestle
free of the human drama?
exposed only
to the planetary forces
of creation and destruction
do they slumber and dream?
do they feel water and wind carving their slopes,
or the snow dusting their summits?
as old as time, they are what they are
no apology or explanation
no dialogue needed
©Kim Magennis 2015
Monday, 6 July 2015
0018 to catch a rainbow
to catch a rainbow
paint it on a tree
soak it deep in branch, trunk and root
©Kim Magennis 2015
Sunday, 5 July 2015
0017 Flights of fancy
A fearsome predator
Incomprehensibly elegant
on gossamer wing
©Kim Magennis 2015
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