#kingfisher
Those halcyon days peace in the still gentle night with you
Calm in the Winter prosperity Kingfishers on a sea of blue,
Each word a star a stone passion that nests us in our waves
Safe in a fragile rest upon me sacred moves inside me laves
That quiet in the storms of life where life can breathe again,
A small bright hope, you settled on the surface of ever been
Amid trouble, luminous waters of a soul lie in your smooth
Just enough for meaning to land slides inside softest groove
Silent anticipation churns a wish into a well a piece of peace
That rare you between wars, waiting on a shore, let go cease
Standing on a shore, an invisible thought, she touches down
Brooding all a life in me riding beauty filled us in the sound.
Mar 14
Mar 14, 2026 at 8:19 AM UTC
the Kingfisher studies the river
'no fish swimming today'
this 'today' that was bound to arrive
too much effluent discharged futher up stream
to many shareholders sharing out the spoils.
Feb 4
Feb 4, 2026 at 7:43 AM UTC
I came down with an absent mind
not fully fixed on seeing you
knowing that the paused world
has changed much
and the art of letting go is survival,
to avoid the pockets of hurt
So with loose hope, I stepped clumsy
to where you’d always been
when with azure shock, there you were,
half-memory, caught
in the high speed shutter of my eye
a teal and orange thrill
Gone as soon as seen
I could lean into the loss,
but I knew you’d been here
to prove this dull distemper will quit
scars that remain will fade
and I’ll see you again
Apr 3, 2021
Apr 3, 2021 at 6:31 AM UTC
The kingfisher lazily perched today
as a sorry river sloped below
fish so visible that fishing
felt like cheating
But, y’know, gift horses and such,
and a full mouth for the nest
is best for everyone
I guess
though glimmer and flash
are rarely seen without challenge
we all need a dose of easy pickings
to even the game
May 20, 2020
May 20, 2020 at 9:59 AM UTC
#*A lone kingfisher
Meditates on lotus bud
Fish in the pond springs
Tigress walks her cubs
Ferocious, in her ways
Grooms with love, to prey
A stag in the woods
Flies with swiftness of the wind
Sacred its antlers*#
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 2:01 PM UTC
The window is ***** and smudged
But beyond lies perfect blue.
Crisp cut against glowing walls lit yellow
By the sunset's paradise kingdom.
Endless and abounding in his kingfisher coat
The sky swoops down to the water's surface
To ****** our hearts from our *******
Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018 at 1:08 PM UTC
Kingfisher at rest,
Aggression’s switch still twitch;
Uncertain balance!
Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:51 PM UTC
The kingfisher darts
through leafy branches
and between trees,
ringing and bustling
as it gently lands
from one bough
to the next.
I feel the breeze
upon my shoulders,
I smell the cattails
and water lilies,
I see the light of morning
reflecting off the surface
in dazzling ripples.
This river runs
from Au Train Lake
to Lake Superior,
flowing with
such purity,
allowing nothing
but tranquility of spirit.
Aug 26, 2017
Aug 26, 2017 at 9:32 PM UTC
Prowling through the undergrowth
In our barging juggernaut,
Ploughing the rolling hills of water,
Which crease as the narrowboat sluggishly gliding past,
Brushes the bulrushes like a tiger in the reeds.
For four intrepid days
Our film and photographs are empty to show,
No sign, only missed whispers,
Of the hummingbird blue blur.
A darting flash cresting the morning chill,
Regal turquoise stealthily steals
Our attention, our focus, and our tiller
Noses toward the bank hugger.
And we have him.
Small amber-royal fisherman,
Eclipsing his heron heralds
And the swans silent vigil
In majestic lapis lazuli.
Swift and sure he graces the water,
Fisher King,
Which bends beneath his dive.
Resurfacing, his golden breast
Mottled with silver minnow.
There recluse in his exclusive spot,
Fish foundering still in the ******
The kingfisher's poise frames his catch
Aperture, shutter, captured shot.
Jul 30, 2016
Jul 30, 2016 at 1:26 AM UTC
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
—The Serenity Prayer
I. Heron
I was born arrow-straight, built for flying,
Three skipping stones past Otter Creek, hollow
Bones blanketed by slate gray, blue stones slight
And callused by well-worn prayers and shallow
Swells of minnows — subterranean aches —
And water cold on yellow scales, hardened
By the calamity of sunsets, lakes —
The drowning weight of too many pardons.
Dip low, tend this broken shoreline sweetly,
Spread shadowed wings and break honeyed silence.
Forgiveness take flight at dusk, discreetly
Written in psalms. Tepid soul find balance
Between the calm, a resting river space
This old trembling mind cannot displace.
II. Quetzal
After the storm, the chaos and quiet
Meet like dew poised on timid fingertips
And shallow grasses to quell the riot
Stirring inside. Fix fragments of this ship
Made of broken parts. My soul’s petrichor:
Inhale failure with a benediction
That fills tired lungs with bravery, before
Nature proposed expectations — fiction
Taut and mended by truth. The earth exhales
In breaths refreshed by rain, accompanied
By loudening trills and harmonious tales —
The tremor of circumstance, and the need
To continue existence like the weeds
That grow in sidewalks despite human greed.
III. The Pelican and the Gull
American Magicicadas choose
To surface seventeen years after birth
For the purpose of recreation. The Blue
Pelican cannot quietly unearth
The patterns of the tide without the gull,
But she does so with tireless trials
And the moon at her back — the lunar pull
Shaping stray shells for a little while.
Twenty-one years of tawny solitude
Shattered by innate desires, buried
Deep by stubborn aches, and kindly allude
To breathing for the first time. Weight carried
And lifted by rekindled hope, reaching
Sands like a button shell kissing the beach.
IV. Kingfisher
I pondered self-acceptance before diving
Into seas uncharted, with the patience
Of Tibetan monks softly harvesting
Grains of sand on an abandoned shore. Since
Emptiness is impermanence, we change
Like shifting seas suspended in nature,
Born from the crease of God’s hand — rearranged
Flaws bound by circumstance. Come close. Nurture
This silent heart into awakening.
Beyond these gray waters surges the sun,
Hopeful in the wake of a newfound spring,
Ochre and alizarin. We become —
Aware that no one saves us but ourselves,
With self-worth rising in tremendous swells.
Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 4:07 PM UTC
When you drive into water,
We always wonder about
‘What you will bring for us’!
When you fly back with fish.......
We turn out to be delighted
Since you blot prosperity for us!
But when you rush back empty
We befall to upset,
As you bring misfortune for us!
However, we love you!
You are our fortune taller!
May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 at 2:22 PM UTC