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Category Archives: Wild Geese
Consider That I Am Mistaken
I’m sure there is someone I almost remember Who may have once told me they’d never forget The blue of my eyes in mid-winter sunlight When the geese were long gone and the gulls alone Might be heard over the … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Consciousness, Gulls, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie Poetry, Lindens, Memory, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Sonnet, The Sea, The Sky, The Wind, Wild Geese
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How often in March Counting the lengthening thaws Between ice and snow Do you listen for wild geese Straining against the moon’s weight?
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie Poetry, Language, Micropoetry, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Spring, Tanka, The Moon, The Sky, Time, Tropes, Wild Geese, Wild Geese in Spring
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Cinquain in Late March
Cattails rattle, icy in the marsh; snow muffles the fields—and no geese call yet, wild, joyful
Posted in Cattails, Cinquain, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie Poetry, Marsh, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Spring, Wild Geese, Wild Geese in Spring
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The Gentle Crocus Hones Green Blades of Rain (a villanelle rebuttal of Thomas)
Niel Gow’s ‘Lament for the Death of his Second Wife’ The Gentle Crocus Hones Green Blades of Rain The gentle crocus hones green blades of rain And whittles gaps in notes the small birds sing; Out of silence we build … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Dylan Thomas, John MacKenzie, Language, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Spring, The Sky, Villanelle, Wild Geese
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Sonnet with Wild Goose (Poached)
Boil up the potatoes, whip them good with butter, cream, and red onions to scoop in peaked mounds and bake golden. Lift down the hanging garlic and chop it fine with salt and crushed pepper to rub into wild goose … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Autumn, Food, John MacKenzie, Language, Memory, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Sonnet, Wild Geese
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Field in Autumn
Late October geese circling in for one last feed honk their alarms too late—12-gauge shoulder slaps bring down tomorrow’s supper
Posted in Art is lies, Autumn, Food, John MacKenzie, Micropoetry, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Tanka, Wild Geese
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The Autumn Shift of Wind (with process note)
This poem started last night at work with this line, “the geese scrawl their lazy vees,” which became these lines, “in the sky already / the geese are dark, hurried scrawls,” and then spread both above and below them into … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Astrophysics, Autumn, Biology, Carbon, Cosmology, Creativity, John MacKenzie, Language, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetics, Poetry, Process, Science, The Moon, Wild Geese
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The Cruel Lindens (a July Ghazal of Haiku)
Looking for something to write last night, I figured why not try marrying another two forms? And so I built a ghazal out of haiku. The Cruel Lindens (a July Ghazal of Haiku) Rose petals rust from salt heat you … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Astronomy, Ghazal, Haiku, Harbour, Japanese Poetry, John MacKenzie, Language, Lindens, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetics, Poetry, Process, Roses, Summer, The Moon, The Sea, Wild Geese, Wild roses
Tagged art is lies, art is theft, astronomy, ghazal, haiku, harbour, Japanese poetry, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie poetry, lindens, new poems, poem tweets, poetics, poetry, process, roses, Summer, the moon, the sea, wild geese, wild roses
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The Wild Geese are > Me, < You
More than three months since we saw the wild geese threaded into the invisible needle of instinct pulling their long and mournful strands into divergence while calculus stitched every long wing and wingbeat precisely into place in the turbulent slipstream … Continue reading →