Renewal

 Allens Pond, Westport, Massachusetts
 
I see a mother swan with her little ones, all around.
 Looks, steps, swims into the world.

  With the eyes on guard...

Of the Ocean

Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

A glimpse of the marshland and cruising Ospreys, makes me sense the ocean.
  I know that this path will bring me to the point
    where I step on the sand and the ripples come in to splash my boots,

   saying in their gentle voices: Stop Here...  

Allens Pond

Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

The amalgam of woods, swamps, meadows,
  and the rocky paths,
   edging the pond that breathes the Ocean's tidal motions.
 
Feels like home to flaps and jumps...
   
From rock to rock, over the brook, through the leafy hideouts,
  onto the blooming collage,   
    where each flower is just about where it should be... 

Somewhere in Tree Crowns

Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

A month of May,
 the month of chirps and warbles,
 reshaping tree crowns into melodic scenery to be listened to.

 And THEY are there,
  somewhere among the leaves, talking to each other...