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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
Early Summer Morning, After Rain
Stepping into the city
after a nightlong rain,
onto cool, wet cobblestones.
Into full, floating scents
of moist earth,
thriving green leaves,
the lime-musk
of sycamore bark,
the pale perfume
of a run-wild rosebush.
Into quietly inviting feelings
of freshness, lushness.
Everything washed down,
washed clean;
every planting overspilling.
Past puddles
in the walking path
all clear and still,
like the reservoir
I circle softly round,
but for the ripple
of a bell
from an old churchtower
ringing
the morning hour
across the water.
Colin Goedecke
Central Park, New York
July 5th, 2016
Green clouds
lie along the surface
of our coastal passage.
Clouds of conifers,
of Sitka spruce and cedar,
shore pine,
hemlock and alder;
that change shape by decades
instead of days;
by generations
of snow and light;
that share the shelter
of their deep-rooted solace
with the water,
the earth, the birds
and sometime-passing men.
Colin Goedecke
The Inside Passage, SE Alaska
July 2009
The upholstery is vast
and varied.
Overstuffed divans
wildly embroidered
with orchids
and scented with cedar.
Chaise-longues
with legs of living wood.
High, wing-backed chairs
of granite and quartz,
doilied with distant snow.
Seedling-stuffed ottomans
fit for the feet of Gullivers.
Fans of delicate ferns.
Headboards of hemlock
carved with eagles.
All carpeted with barks
and cones, and plush
mosses made for the touch;
all dappled
with serene summer light.
© Colin Goedecke
Frederick Sound, SE Alaska
July 2009