starlings
swirl from highway signs
southbound traffic
by James Brush
These micropoems aka “small stones” are short observational micro-poem-things mostly about nature. They are the result of paying close attention to the world around and writing from those moments.
starlings
swirl from highway signs
southbound traffic
daddy longlegs
slips across autumn sunlight
barred windows
warm september moon
a hard glow
between elm branches
fevered skin
a wolf pack stalking
over snow
drizzlegray
among rain lilies
a mockingbird
walking as slow
as greyhounds allow
I watch the sun
set behind the oaks
firewheels
bees navigate
fields of wildflowers
I stop and watch
idle
—
firewheels
windblown, yellow
dancing, twisting, shimmering
lunchtime passes too fast
enough
—
stoptime
fields in red bloom
killdeer race through the grass
and bees hover silently, slow
firewheels
—
This is an attempt to write cinquains in the three formats found here, but using the same or similar topics and words (firewheels, stop, enough) that I also used in today’s NaPoWriMo / PAD tritina poem “It Is Enough.”
bluebonnets fading
their scent lingers in the air
firewheels begin
our dark street
three deer, hoofs clacking
morning stars
birdsong
this strange midnight
music floats through the oaks
the lone mockingbird’s nocturnal
refrain