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Hadrian

Stone, baked by summers
long since forgotten by
the living and the dead
races furrowed fields
across countryside lanes
as a spring-dew sunrise
reveals its scars

Author Andrew MackayPosted on July 17, 2019Categories PoetryTags nature, poem, poetry, spring, verse, wallLeave a comment on Hadrian

Liberate

Rise like a single ember
caught in ecstatic swirling
tendrils of soft smoke

Rise like the first shoots
of a tentative spring

Rise like the Sun
greeting the East

Rise, rise together.

 

Author Andrew MackayPosted on July 15, 2019July 15, 2019Categories Justice, PoetryTags free verse, liberation, liberation theology, nature, poem, poetry, rise, spring, sunrise, verseLeave a comment on Liberate

Neither dead nor alive

god never died;
was never alive.
except in human hearts
where the embers glow
and crackle upon
gentle pressure
to warm a biting
winter morning
where the lake stands
still, awaiting spring
so it may sway and churn
to let us know it
teems with life

 

 

Author Andrew MackayPosted on March 9, 2019Categories PoetryTags free verse, god, nature, poetry, religion, verse, vss, winterLeave a comment on Neither dead nor alive

Uncertain spring

each droplet
falls from sky to soil
divergent paths
converge to nourish the loam
where the ever-yearning shoots
of an uncertain spring stretch out
to bid the world a hearty
hello.

Author Andrew MackayPosted on April 7, 2018Categories PoetryTags free verse, nature, poetry, rain, seasons, spring, verseLeave a comment on Uncertain spring

Autumn sunrise

verdant landscape
beams in
naïve optimism
each year choosing
to forget the sun,
swollen with untempered power;
supple stems stiffen
involuntary camouflage
against once-moist soil
now nature’s adobe
stacked
to the horizon, and
pining for an autumn sunrise

Author Andrew MackayPosted on October 2, 2016Categories Justice, PoetryTags autumn, free verse, nature, poetry, seasons, summer, sun1 Comment on Autumn sunrise

Within wood

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Fire marches,
the fissures glow
within wood
as if the long-dead tree
hums with latent energy
seeking release
at once, in a thousand places.

 

Author Andrew MackayPosted on May 13, 2016Categories PoetryTags bonfire, campfire, energy, fire, free verse, logs, nature, poetry, verse, woodLeave a comment on Within wood

Float

Float, spring butterfly
breathe deep warm winds, swelling up,
lifting you sunward

Author Andrew MackayPosted on February 23, 2015Categories PoetryTags butterfly, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, seasons, spring, sun, verseLeave a comment on Float

Own mortality

The sandy atoll,
a thousand leagues
from a weak, tenuous somewhere
barren, where even scrub-grass
dares not open a new franchise
and all a man, shipwrecked,
has for company
is his own mortality

Author Andrew MackayPosted on February 13, 2015Categories PoetryTags atoll, beach, death, island, isolation, nature, nowhere, poem, poetry, remote, sandLeave a comment on Own mortality

The Laughing Tree

AutumnTree

Beyond knee-high grass
onward to the Laughing Tree
dancing with joyful
autumn colors, ablaze, even
though few ever came to watch

Author Andrew MackayPosted on December 28, 2014Categories PoetryTags autumn, color, micropoetry, nature, poem, poetry, seasons, tanka, tree, verse, vssLeave a comment on The Laughing Tree

Ashes

Fireplace

 

The soul, free of its many fetters
dancing as firelight
glowing red-hot, like iron
ready to be shaped by tempered hands
until all is left but ashes
and the memories they contain.

Author Andrew MackayPosted on December 25, 2014Categories Images, PoetryTags fire, nature, poem, poetryLeave a comment on Ashes

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