Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

Tag: ocean waves

WEEKEND MORNING

The Hawk Deck 9:48am

The Waves Are Still

In The Quiet Fog

The Coffee Steeps

I Read My Blog

RECEPTION

The Tomato-coloured Couch 1:00pm

There Was No Little Yellow Bird

In The Scraggly Apple

When I Said My Prayer

Today

But The Waves Were There

The Waves Heard Me

And So My Prayer

Is Answered

LAST NIGHT’S POEM

The Hawk Queen Bed 7:35am

I Hear The Surf Surge Through

My Open Black Window

& One Solitary Fog Horn Echoing

As If It Were Six

I AM A BABY

The Hawk Queen Bed 6:30pm

I Am A Baby

In A Bassinet On A Beach

How Many Of Us Have Been Born On The Surging Crest?

How Many Of Us Will Die Upon The Ebb?

I Am Rocked To Sleep

By The Rhythm

I Am Awakened

To My Infancy

HOME

Pubnico, NS 10:22am

I am driving Home

A New Message

there — I see that tree I remember

I climbed It as a little kid

& now It is The Mighty Oak

Out There I See The Ocean

with tidal flats before

I hear The Waves

high under The Full Moon

pushing Me onward

to The Self

I think I know

so well

THE HAWK AFTERNOON

The Hawk Deck 3:00pm

What Is In My World?

My Devoted Husband, soon-to-be-retired

My Darling Daughter, still up in the air

as far as school goes

My Children’s Grandfather languishing

in the little local hospital

under the care of Dr David H. Wilson

and so the perpetual ocean waves

draw Me in