The hiss of water’s retreat on sand
The “crawwwwk” as a Great Blue Heron lands
The lament of the Light on a foggy night
The honking “V” of wild geese in flight
Posts Tagged ‘osprey’
Soundings
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged beachgrass, buoy, Chesapeake, foghorn, gale, geese, gull, heron, hull, lighthouse, osprey, regatta, sail on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Things Change
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged bay, change of seasons, Chesapeake Bay, eagle, horshoe crab, impermanence, osprey, sailing, sailor, tide, waves, windshift on February 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The breeze clocks ‘round and freshens
Laughing sailors spring to tend the sheets
Necks crane to watch the telltales flutter
All hands eagerly the windshift greet
