bullfrogs and writing poems
There are no creatures you cannot love.
A frog calling at God
From the moon-filled ditch
As you stand on the country road in the June night.
The sound is enough to make the stars weep
With happiness.
In the morning the landscape green
Is lifted off the ground by the scent of grass.
The day is carried across its hours
Without any effort by the shining insects
That are living their secret lives.
The space between the prairie horizons
Makes us ache with its beauty.
Cottonwood leaves click in an ancient tongue
To the farthest cold dark in the universe.
The cottonwood also talks to you
Of breeze and speckled sunlight.
You are at home in these
great empty places
along with red-wing blackbirds and sloughs.
You are comfortable in this spot
so full of grace and being
that it sparkles like jewels
spilled on water.
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From a Country Overlooked by Tom Hennen
Some days the words flow
all day
pouring
smooth and beautiful
words dancing
in streams
like fish in a pond
jumping in the sun
while bullfrogs
talk –
their amazing
deep bass voices
croaking conversations
vibrating through the air
and grasshoppers
scrape their legs
like bows on violin strings
in that cool raspy sound
free form jazz
only they can make.
these are sounds
that define summer
for all of us
southern girls and boys
who grew up in the country
where our entertainment
was driving through town
waving to each other
playing country music
or Lynyrd Skynyrd
loud
on truck radios
while coke-a-cola
and kick-a-boo joy juice
keeps us cool
as we hold hands
and sneak kisses
yes, some days
words flow like a
hot summer night
in the south
and some days
all the words fly north
and I am bare naked bones
searching
bereft
trying to light
wild fires in wet fields
trees with bare branches
scrape the grey sky
nothing is beautiful
no birds sing
the flow
is frozen
in time
I sit
like a Bronte novel heroine
in my moldy wedding dress
alone
in silence
waiting
for my lover
to return to me
AL 🐸
Listen to Ella & Louis sing Summetime http://youtu.be/lnXLVTi_m_M
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