A Winter Wish

View from our lanai - January vacation in Hawaii

Soft air is gentle, warm and kind
my limbs are tanned and free
the doves coo tender, flowers sway
with butterfly and bee

The roads unfold to waterfall
rock beach and pounding spray
the sweet days slip like pearls unstrung
this winter holiday

If only I could have a wish
I’d order time stand still
“Stop all the clocks” my one command
until I’ve had my fill

© 2012 by V. Nesdoly

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This poem was inspired by “Carry On Tuesday – Prompt 145” and the words “Stop all the clocks.”

“Stop all the clocks” is found in the poem “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden.  Read and listen to the original poem here.

Maui Scrapbook – Wild ride

Surfer at Ho'okipa Beach Park

Wild ride

Crouch, stand tall
mount the curling foam
up and down
in and out
for the wild ride back to shore
any wave will do

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Stalk

Surfers lying in wait - Ho'okipa Beach Park

Stalk

Surfboards poised
eyes scan restless sea
calculate
curl and height
Maui surfers float and drift
stalking the big one

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Voyeurs

Snorkelers in Honolua Bay

Voyeurs

Snorkelers
watch another world
lazy drift
gill, fin, tail
turquoise Honolua Bay
maritime voyeurs

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Boulder

Green Sea Turtle - we watched them play in the water and one day two visited us on shore!

Boulder

Sea turtle
tossing in the waves
surf and rocks
play for hours
lift head high to catch a breath
boulder on the beach

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Winter flora

If Hawaii blooms like this in winter, what must it look like in spring and summer?

Winter flora

Orchid leis
Birds of Paradise
Hibiscus
Butterfly
Plumeria—Maui’s blooms
make us long for spring

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Neighbours

Some of the birds of Maui

Neighbours

Cardinals
cattle Egrets graze
Sandpipers
Myna birds
Neck-spotted and Zebra doves
cooing night and day.

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Newbies

Me - with my winter-white skin

Newbies

Friday night
newcomers, pale-skinned
crowd store aisles
shopping for
week ahead in Maui sun
Monday they’ll be tanned

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We recently returned from a two-week holiday on Maui. What a treat! I had never been to any of the Hawaiian islands before, so everything was novel and new.

I took lots of photos and decided to combine those with shadorma poems to make a  photo-poetry album of Maui memories.

Adolescence

Adolescence

Five tomatoes ripening
on my window ledge
four are green and hard and small
the fifth is on the edge

of young tomato adulthood
large, red-green and blushing
cast out from every unripe vine
of gossiping–and wishing.

© 2007 by Violet Nesdoly (First published in Family Reunion)

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“Adolescence” is my contribution to the Red challenge at The High Calling. Read about it here.

Trust?

Trust?

(After Psalm 91:4)

Under hollow bones
connected by mere cartilage and skin
clothed in feathers and down?

Then I remember
the wing-bearer
has the heart of a lion.

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

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The internet is full of interesting poetry prompts. My attention was snagged by this photo of a wing with its challenge to write a poem on the Everyday Poems Facebook page (way back on January 20th).