The Floating Poetry Broadcast ~ No. 5 ~ Going Journeying

The 5th in a weekly series of "Floating Poetry" live broadcasts…

…here on journeying.

By crescent moon and oil-lamp light. From Weekapaug, Rhode Island.

By the wandering sea.

A journey around the world and The Poetisphere.

Even a trip to the moon…

The Floating Poetry Broadcast ~ No. 4 ~ on Joy

The 4th "Floating Poetry" live weekly broadcast, on joy.

By heart-light. From Weekapaug, Rhode Island.

By the brilliant & buoyant sea.

A 25-minute voyage.

To places of inner & outer joyfulness…

Standing Still with the Sun ~ a plein air poem for the Winter Solstice

Standing Still with the Sun

          an ode to the Winter Solstice

Meteors are showering overhead

this Solstice night,

this nearly Cold Moon night;

deep wintering night.

The North Pole is turning

south again, to the echoes 

of centuries

of singing and feasting, 

fires and dancing;

sometimes with poetry

and pomegranates,

sometimes with bathing

in holy rivers; giving alms

to beggars and Brahmins. 

Round the death and rebirth

of the Light; 

round the last and next seasons

of the Earth. Sol sistere.

A night for the Sun and each soul 

to stand still. An invitation, to feel 

your sacred place, in Nature, 

your passage, through Time; 

the vital part you play in this Great Mystery,

in this endlessly curious, wildly

wondrous Journey.

Colin Goedecke

at the Winter Solstice

Morristown, New Jersey

December 21st, 2018

Bring Yourself to This Day ~ a plein air poem for the Summer Solstice

Bring Yourself to This Day

                                     for the Summer Solstice
 

This Solstice Day,

re-generous day.

Of new Summering,

good Naturing.

The sun so greatly

lengthening. 

The trees

so freely dancing,

in ever deeper,

ever greener ecstasies.

The clouds caressing

the open skies, 

and dotting the eyes

of sailors

and mountaineers,

painters and

sonneteers. 

The waters of lakes

and rivers, firths

and fjords, bays

and sounds, clear 

and mirroring.

Bring yourself,

your whole nature,

bodifully, 

spiritly ~

as bountifully,

to this day

of balance and

beauty,

dalliance

and euphony

between

the boundless

heavens and the

re-turning earth; 

with a lightening

heart and long,

lengthening breath.


 

Colin Goedecke

Morristown, New Jersey

June 21st, 2018

In a Drop ~ a plein air poem & meditation on our connection with nature

In a Drop

of saltwater,

you can see an ocean

blueing;

of rain,

you can hear blossoms

opening;

of wine,

you can taste a landscape

sunning;

of quicksilver,

you can scent weather

coming;

of ink,

you can touch a poet

dreaming;

of a tear,

you can feel your being

flowing.

Colin Goedecke

in the woodlands

of Morristown, New Jersey

March, 2017

Into the Wild Green Wonder ~ a plein air poem & ode to another Spring

Into the Wild Green Wonder

                an Ode to Spring

Under Spring’s Wild Blue

Wonder we enter its new

and renewing Green.

Enchanting us round parks

and woodlands, ponds,

hillsides, meadowlands.

Awakening us

through all our years,

all the ages of earth,

all the pages of history,

poetry, mythology.

With its symphony

of daring colors. 

Its delicate flowering.

Its essencing 

of innocence; ecstasy

of purest presence.

Beckoning us

to fall once again 

into the wild green wonder

of its outstretched arms,

like forever young and

eager lovers. 

Colin Goedecke

in the Loantaka Woods

Morristown, New Jersey

March, 2017

Re: Birth ~ a plein air poem for our Spring Equinox

Re: Birth

            for our Spring Equinox(es)

First breath.

To last breath.

What flows between

is the reveling

and leveling

of living.

The many faces

and found graces

of loving.

The transcendental

moments ~

of great epiphanies,

deep ecstasies,

timeless memories.

The embodiments

of you becoming

even now

ever new,

ever free

to spring.

Colin Goedecke

on Braidburn Way

Morristown, New Jersey

March 20, 2017

Let There Be Lightness ~ a plein air poem for the Winter Solstice

Let There Be Lightness

                                      at the winter solstice

To dispel all darkness,

all heaviness.

Let there be waxing,

toward all things

lightening,

all things humanizing.

Let the world turn back

to itself anew;

the stopping sun

return back aglow;

hope burn hot

and bright

in eager hearts.

Let us, as Nature’s

creations, remember

its sacredness,

and bring to life

and each other

the great sparks of soul

that shoot and shimmer

within our earthliness.

Colin Goedecke

at The Loantaka Brook

Morristown, New Jersey

December 21st, 2016