Photo By RH Peat: “The Rippled Sheet Between”
By RHPeat:
Bed of Sky
I’m held in a field of star nettles
amid the settled summer dust
where an ancient oak touches
the wide sky; there I slumber.
I am clad as a red-wing blackbird;
I’m at home in the boggy marsh
where I build my nest in the reeds
for all that Spring has to offer me.
I am from the far-side, the other
side of the steep hill, beyond
the horizon where the road
winds up to the rounded top.
I continue that outstretched
dream where evergreen oaks
climb the hillside to reach my
land at the earth-quilted summit.
I am a ball of pliable clay wanting
to become that awakened design
within an artist’s agile hands where
his imagination and memory play.
I am the torrid ravine rolling over
rocks and around turns; I’m filled
with laughing water that glides by
banks of blackberry brambles.
I am that single white cumulus
cloud that deeply hangs within
the midday sky like a fat fluffy
pillow that awaits your silky sleep.
© RH Peat: 3/29/05
RH PEAT, is 75, lives in California; He’s published his poetry in the USA, New Zealand, Australia, India, England, Canada, and Japan. He’s taught workshops and operated poetry readings in California. He now operates a closed poetry workshop forum for writers on the internet.
The book “Abyss Of The Moon” can be bought at Barnes & Noble and on Amazon
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER: 2010909546
ISBN: HARDCOVER 978-1-4535-2930-0
ISBN: SOFTCOVER 978-1-4535-2929-4
ISBN: EBOOK 978-1-4535-2931-7
Another poem by this author:
Like a Comet: She Is Distance
Website of the author: Studio390
