Port Bickering Harbour, Nova Scotia
Our ferryboat’s alert, slap
of restless waves
anxious, hear the engines pout
powerful, surrounds the bay
tourists excitedly
arouse these placid waters
where jellyfish abound
in roaming numbers,
their orange façade
reaching with listless
tangle, wondering
what’s about
we know, we
capture the harmony,
sun’s reflecting light
eye-squinting calm-
Nature’s casual march
across our brow.
© 1992 Richard L. Provencher
All Rights Reserved
first published Spring 1992
Volume Two, Number One
CUMULUS, Windspeak Press
Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan
ISSN-1188-163-2
Comments
Nathan Bednarek | August 14, 2009 - 11:28
'Nature’s casual march
across our brow.'
Phew, the lines I quoted are so perfectly phrased they actually gave me goose bumps, honestly! The piece is tranquil and yet it 'marches' on with its steady, authoritative walk ;-)
Enjoyed. Well done.
Nathan.
Richard L. Prov... | August 14, 2009 - 13:03
Hello Nathan, your sincere comments are precious. I feel it important to me to share my published poems, since many were in magazines, some of which are folded, and others only had a small following, perhaps several hundred. I am honoured to have a new generation read and appreciate my work. Thank you. Some folks have asked me how long it takes to write my poetry. Some take ten minutes, many two hours, and yet I have spent as long as ten hours on a twenty line poem. Each collection of words from the heart requires various stages of massaging. The best, Richard LP