Almost Niksen* In The Boondocks Of The Southern Peloponnese

--for Ans and Peter, outstanding Dutch experts

in the field of observing Mother Nature 

 

I’m not counting but I suppose 

There are many other more 

Fruitful things to do 

 

With one’s precious 

Time than to sit 

In a director’s 

 

Chair facing the warm 

Winter sun, slowly peeling 

And then eating 

 

One of the too numerous 

To count oranges freshly 

Picked from the garden 

 

Of the Milk and Honey House, 

Then spitting out 

The seeds one-by-one, 

 

Watching them bounce 

Off the stone 

Patio till they come 

 

To rest in the grass 

Under the green 

Limbs of a benevolent, 

 

Bountiful Mother. 

 

 

 

* https://time.com/5622094/what-is-niksen/

 

Haiku: Singular Sense Of Solitude

You want to impart— 

Dispense with it with the wind

 

Parting lonesome pines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bully For Us, Old Chap!

 

Little man, as 

It looks like 

 

You have so little 

To say, don’t you dare

 

Take up all my precious 

Time saying it— 

 

I’m next in line, 

By the way. 

 

 

 

End Of The Line, Mister

 

And for your own good, stop 

All that hollering—you’ll know 

 

When the poem can’t take any more 

Of your meddling when it breaks 

 

You down for good. 

 

 

 

Synesthetic Passion

Dearest Valentines, 

 

Imagine it all 

Going up in smoke, 

 

Could you still smell 

The burning 

 

Ecstasy of vocables 

Crying out?