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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
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
A Day the Sun Stood Still
for this summer solstice
Today.
A day unlike any other,
past or future.
Not because the sun will stand
still, at the Tropic of Cancer,
then reverse
its northerly arc
and head radiantly south,
toward the Tropic of Capricorn.
Not because a full moon,
a native, votive Strawberry Moon
will, just once
in most of our lifetimes,
rise on the same plane.
Today is a day unlike any other
because it’s a new day
of light, lightness;
rareness, wonder
open to one, to all.
A day where our own stillness
can greatly illuminate.
Where we can choose
to move likewise;
clock-or-counterclockwise,
in phenomenal directions.
Can invoke a fresh season,
infusion, green summer of self;
bring ripening
to our life seeds,
fruits, vines, visions;
connect more deeply,
simply to the earth;
to the purely elemental
shining inside, around
and above us.
Colin Goedecke
On the Summer Solstice,
at the Loantaka Brook Reservation
Convent Station, New Jersey
June 20, 2016