by Steve Tanham
For Sue Vincent’s #writephoto ➰ The eyes say there should be roaring The ears should be Overwhelmed But in the mind where Lives the observer’s finger There is silence A digital discovery That It is not there, either… ➰ ©Stephen Tanham
by Steve Tanham
Beyond the blue is something more Where green leaves end is azure’s home No distance fades or feathers this Transition in the air of Life No boundary we don’t set in stone ➰ Before the Green my eyes appear Not open – grow – from matter’s heart Creating depth with brain that knows What it remembers, nothing more The veil of knowing is the … Read More Veil of Blue
by Steve Tanham
Against the heat, I have to climb To drink the air so soft and fine That my sore feet and too hot dog Seek, daily in these fleeting months For she who hides the winter in the wine ___ In heady breaths of fragrant fire My lungs draw deep the hotter bliss Now fading like the summer’s arc Will shortly start to downward curve … Read More The kiss of summer
by Steve Tanham
‘Around the Sun’, my mighty oak returns Resplendent, emerging green Exquisite tones of life reveal What words cannot That life overwhelms The darkness ©Stephen Tanham
by Steve Tanham
Is it perhaps in fingertips Where poised and ready reflex sits Sharpened, flexed and keen Framing March’s calling turn As brightness fills the sky ➰ Or feet that on an older ground Had slithered, moaned and grumbled loud Now, with bouncing spring and tread A lighter step as though ahead A different path awaits ➰ Perhaps the seeds delight and stir Where winter’s … Read More Spring’s Silent Song
by Steve Tanham
At Winter’s end In lows of March A friend said: watch the crows It’s fanciful, he said But wise, and came from one who knows. ⦿ Far below the nest that swayed, I wandered With streaming eyes to field beyond Where two dark shapes Carved the air on frozen pond. ⦿ Mere hair’s width from the icy death A swooping, chasing joy A courtship … Read More Enduring Crows
by Steve Tanham
The tree in Winter Its life-trail etched against the sky reveals what we cannot Who stand below and try — To see within How we became this shape This pattern in the now And asking how — Did we result in this? Our branching tale of history Concealed in layered thoughts And wrapped in finery —- We would Be dead and left to rot … Read More The Tree in Winter
by Steve Tanham
She stops, the gentle collie Tasting the air at the breakwater’s end The day in the car forgotten Enchanted by the dingle ching Of cables and pennants The hiss of moonlight on cold sea The stroking breeze from the eastern sky — And, suddenly, I am thirteen And the sea, unseen And the night, unkissed Have come for me… —- ©Stephen Tanham
by Steve Tanham
We meet up for a bowl and brew When winter days are short And darkness fills the edge of hours And shortens lives too far apart 🔻 The muddy Collie, winding stairs Are worth the sodden ball and park The panting dog with coursing blood Now flops, no more to chase and bark 🔻 I leave the table free for you While shaking … Read More Nook by Stairs
by Steve Tanham
Standing here I feel as though my life Were a rising of sap An ascent of mind and heart A hissing of vitality, akin to steam ➰ From earth I am drawn To organic arising Within a perfected tree Which nourishes my Imperfections ➰ Until, old and swaying With faded crumbling leaf Stubbornly past its fall My substance golds then fades And, once again, … Read More Becoming Air
by Steve Tanham
The January Tree — Stripped bare of Summer meaning Leaving only wood to sway I wait, endure, while others pass Along this rocky way ➰ Your feet are fast and fluid While mine are mired in earth Your thoughts too fast to capture While mine are simpler truth ➰ Come spring I will awaken Then will you stop again? To see the youngest … Read More The January Tree
by Steve Tanham
What silver magic rises here Amidst the Winter mists and gloom When, darkly frosted, shines the bark Announcing light that drives the gloom Where sleeping tree meets secret moon ⦿ But do you have the eyes of child? And ears curled round our faery song What is not there, yet plainly seen? Or are you bound to look around Believing what has never … Read More Silver Tree meets Secret Moon
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