Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

such light green leaves
 for the end of summer: 
  doesn’t that tree know?

the river’s flow
 doesn’t disturb the cloud’s
  reflected drift.

it’s cool & rainy, 
 but the canopy is green:
  last days of summer.

river ripples
 roll downstream unwarped 
  by the flow.

the sun sets
 into a narrow glade:
  rolling downslope.

ducks & geese
 cluster in a shallow stream:
  layover lounge.

bird at work:
 flitting branch to branch,
  seeking perfect seeds.

deer eyes walker.
 jumbo jets scream overhead,
  but it heard stick crack.

Pac-Men multiply:
 sought by too few upside-down 
  lily “ghosts.”

water flows - mutely -
 below the train which roars 
  through, hourly