... Welcome Home

At the threshold
by the burgeoning
honeysuckle
vine

A vibrant
ruby throated
humming bird
flitttttttted up-
to hover

forever
it seemed
eye to eye
.... so close...
to me....

Did he think me bloom?

or did he simply want to convey
welcome home.

poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab

The Fairy Garden Poems # 48

...Up Out of the Mud

Rivers of paint
run through my blood

Rivers of unequivocal color
up out of the mud

huts to palaces
every home

where ever tint can roam

every floor
every wall
every tile
every hall

every costume
every dance
every embroidery
every glance

huts to palaces
every home

every garden
every wood
every field
every could

huts to palaces
every home

where ever ever ever
an I might roam

poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab

The Fairy Garden Poems # 47

...You Are

You are

You are

You are
my perfection

a polished gem
thoughts tumbling

You are my secret
my language of flowers
blooming in every bouquet

You are
my strength

a polished gem
thoughts tumbling

Surreptitious surrender...

My favored port

My ocean

and land

My mountains and clouds
My four leaf clover

My delight

My treasure

My good mood
on a dismal day

poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab

The Fairy Garden Poems # 46

...Anthropologies

Birds watching
as we prune
and preen our trees
preparing
for spring

bundles of branches
and bags of twigs

we bend and break
and hoard our haul

brush from the garden
and broom from the hill

Do they imagine our nest
our herbal brews

with ornithosmorphic
empathies...?

poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab

The Fairy Garden Poems # 45

February's Fairy

Come cold
melt

emerge
in metal blades
carving space
time... thought

fairies caught

in the culling

in the balance between
air and there

poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab

The Fairy Garden Poems # 44

...The Universe Speaks.

"The universe
speaks..."
as they say

and I flow with it
but one drop

tributaries into creeks into rivers into bays into
ocean
evaporating

into clouds

Castles
where i might find
true love

Castles
where i might be
true love

The universe speaks

signs and symbols

yes or no

come here go there...

be bloom or not

blush
and feel the flush of life

breath
and feel the dream
of day after day
simply being

Three billion heart beats
in one human life

The Universe speaks...
allows us to know

leaves hints

poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab

The Fairy Garden Poems # 43

...Fairies Twinkle

Fairies twinkle
in new fallen snow

each glance and glimmer

of shifting
prismatic
shimmer

as all the world turns white

each glance and glimmer

of shifting
prismatic
shimmer

might be one
with rainbow wings
flickering

here there and everywhere
while you might try to capture her spirit
try to save her clues
try to count her community
try to

but never quite come close enough
to catch her

never quite close enough
to know her

to understand her

to define her

to defend her

beyond
your own wildest imaginings

poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab

The Fairy Garden Poems # 42