Shine and Shadow~ Maine Spring

"...Wherever you go they'll go with you and whatever you are you'll wonder,

smiling about the fullness

you can't add to and the emptiness

that you can fill."

Scottish poet~ Norman MacCaig, from Anam Cara

Graceful trees, Calais Maine

Sea Urchin~Found in the woods at Devil's Head, Calais Maine

Variegated Maple Leaf

Luminous spectacle

To September

Sunflowers bow-

bending at their brown

dried knees

no longer following

the sun

humbled now, they fade

Spiders busier-

by night they spin

sunrise casts first light

on their dew drop craft-

intricate lines

of deception

Birds and more birds

gather on lines and poles

like little feathered men

assembled in rows

something startles one

-off they all fly madly

Sun rise bothers not

to wake me these days

I am the one who shakes

to rise and shine-

a bucket of cracked corn

rattled like an alarm

As for the moon-

too early he rises

in a golden way

hypnotizing me,

early yawns follow-

triumphantly he glows

When sun and moon together

compress the day

between horizons

of awe and wonder-

daylight beaten,

I surrender...

To September.

by T.L. Starks 2008

someThing intricately structured...

(photo credit Jose More')

"...Love a guy who holds the world in a paper cup Drink it up, love him and he'll bring you luck And if ya find he helps your mind, better take him ho-ome Yeah 'n' dontcha live alone, try to earn what lovers own..."

Happy belated birthday -my friend of friends. So thankful just now, and I suspect always...that you were set upon this earth "26" years ago... Hope you're firing up that ole Hot Rod, you're gonna need some high octane/in low gear to ride with me... But you know that, love that-don't you sweet heart?! I won't invade your woods there with too many words -but I could find you in a haystack, just like you found me-in a hurricane. Picked me up, dried me off and preached your slow dance sermon to my heart, cold and heavy as it was-you carried it there to your wood burner in the play pen -poetically, sincerely warmed my soul like no other. Something about you, Mr. -that just makes me want to smile sometimes... Cheers, and see you some day. Me,my Levis, open mind and arms. Just as I am...

"... You even called me friend..."

Thank God I'm a country girl,Yeah...take care!