High And Low

At the pond’s edge stood

a Wild Blue Herron

examining the water 

beneath his feet before

he flew off in search of

something better in the sky.

JDG

Honeysuckle Joy

Honeysuckle’s sweet smell

carries me back through time.

I’m five years old

and Ricky Peacock is showing me

how to sip honey like a bee.

Then we spot a rabbit and hop

off after him, hoping to find his burrow,

but he is cleverer than we are 

and also very fast.