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

The Day to Spring - a plein air poem for the vernal equinox

The Day to Spring

                                          a poem for the spring equinox

It's The Day to Spring,

from winter's bare coil.

The Day for Self, 

and Nature,

to draw its longbowed

heart and sap back

and let fly,

freely,

swiftly,

vernally forth,

air to ground,

arrowing

with anticipation

into the marrow

of all newness,

all awakening,

all fullness.

Colin Goedecke

Central Park, New York

March 20, 2016

Klimt in His Garden ~ a poem for Klimt & Krabbe

Klimt in His Garden

      for Jasper Krabbé  at his 2007 New York Opening,

      on a painting of the painter Gustav Klimt

 

 He moves in a moonlength robe

through an evening green garden

of quietude; with hidden feet

that touch the muted grass and moss;

his figure almost afloat

under the first blooms

faint and soon fragrant

on the branches over his silent head

and soft beard, without thought

of brushes or canvases,

only this moment

savoring the poetry

of a Spring night

in his garden.

© Colin Goedecke

In Chelsea, New York City

March, 2007