Already Ours
Words lost in the forest
invisible behind closed eyes
Green inspiration of mature
blackberry and raspberry thickets,
of wild marshes ripe with
cranberries and blueberries,
unlit by mind-light’s crimson rays
Above thicket and marsh, grey
squirrel-forum and good, loose
magpie’s black-and-white
directions: ‘the green inspiration
of an out-breath as they’re spoken,
words as they must be when
they’re written - embrace them!
They are already yours’
ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs) and hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (24+ years/118+ issues), poetry’s homes include Lilliput Review, The Stray Branch, Verse Wisconsin, Shamrock, Kind of a Hurricane, Shemom, has earned cherished awards and participated in worthy anthologies - poetry ensembles include Concentric Penumbra’s of the Heart and Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling, and, in 2013, released an anthology The Poet’s of Bear Creek - beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)
yay for this poem, it has found a home!
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