Between
Sweetwater and Sand is a book of love poems for Planet Earth and her
living tapestries of plants, birds, fish and animals that live on sands,
forests, in airstreams and living waters.
Barbara Spring lives on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. She has published articles and poems in
numerous newspapers and magazines and on the www. She taught poetry to gifted children and
taught writing classes and liberal studies at Grand Valley State University.
Her published books include: The
Dynamic Great Lakes, a critically acclaimed a non-fiction book about
changes in the Great Lakes; The
Wilderness Within, a book of poems and essays about wild places; and Sophia’s Lost and Found: Poems of Above and
Below. This book celebrates wisdom and mourns the times when Sophia is
lost.
My books are also available on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Spring/e/B002PI5IQQ Here is a link to my books and a couple of my videos.
Excerpted from Between Sweetwater and Sand
Peasant Dance by Pieter Breugel
My books are also available on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Spring/e/B002PI5IQQ Here is a link to my books and a couple of my videos.
Excerpted from Between Sweetwater and Sand
Birds of Paradise
Birds of paradise
dance
to impress the
opposite sex something like
Pieter Breughel’s
“Peasant Dance.”
The men folk dance
kick legs in the
air—their very large feet.
Sturdy men display
their colors: red, black, white
(one wears a long
black sword)
a small curved horn
on the ground.
Village square?
Tropical jungle?
A bird of paradise
makes strange sounds--
the bag piper with
his cheeks puffed out
squeezes out weird
music for the dance.
Hands reach out
toward each other.
They want. They want.
They all want something.
A woman with a red
purse hands
bread to a child.
A man and a woman
kiss on the lips--
earthen jugs passed
around.
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