The Conodoquinet Creek

The Conodoquinet Creek
"winding stream"
"for a long way nothing but bends"

cradles the land
where we live

defines the edge
of our neighboorhood
on all three sides

brings birds up
from the Susquehanna
where egrets nest

Osprey and eagles
come too

gracing the creek
feathering the view

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 17

Tightly looping meanders of Conodoguinet Creek in eastern Cumberland County.


Orr's Covered Bridge spanned Conodoguinet Creek for many years

Poem in a poem

A little brown wren
has come to warble
nesting
by my window

becoming my view

taking a fancy
to our fancy bird house
dangling from the eave.

A little brown wren
has come to catch my eye
as she darts in
flits out

and about

Two of them take turns
entertaining me

Poem in a poem:

....Scissors

Don't try
To lip read birds

For the songs twittered
are tied to air
not beak

the composition heard
of heaven
Not earth

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 16

Tiger Lily

The Tiger Lilies
stand guard

roaring
bright
bold

Each as if a dragon
left his breath

to bloom with warning
as summer turns hot

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 15

....What is Time (from a fairy garden)

What is time
but a way
to define
what might be

Free choice in every twitch
and every twine

Free choice in where to hid
and what to watch

Where to turn ones head
or open one's heart

Free choice in perceiving gold
in yellow flowers

and a wealth of possibility
in every shape
twinkling

every pattern plotting
a celestial course
as heaven comes down in the everyday

and we drink the rain
in a cucumber
drink the cloud shapes dreamed last week
as heaven comes down in the everyday

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 14

A Fairy Harp

The Spider Web

A fairy harp
strung through the herbs
and summer blooms
out front

a fairy harp
shimmering

plucked
string by string
weaving song

fairies know
the music of the night

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 13

Viewed from the Fairy Garden

Viewed from the Fairy Garden

The Morning Glories have begun!

Lattices of light
reach down
absorbing leaf green

blending

lending hues and height

infusing the bluest of blue
the purest of pure
the deepest of dew
into

early morning bloom

with the promise of more and more and more...

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 12

The Garden Fairies

They are everywhere you know-
the Garden Fairies

Bits of dreams snagged
shaped
given wings and nice faces
blinking eyes
and pretty dresses

to go with the garden and woods

to charm and beguile
to hold onto hope knowing
that beauty is in every bloom
and breeze....
right now
bringing flavors of gardens
to brew

to charm and beguile

& they simply can't be contained.

The Garden Fairies frolic
slip past every wall
elude every boundary
flit through every barricade

they own air and space and time
and even punctuation

making moments longer
when we want to pause

poem & picture copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab
The Fairy Garden Poems # 11