John Poole

finding spring

Sun shades the world, dipped shadows

ribboned through glaring sunlight

exploding from random puddle remnants,

linden leaves droop under water weight—

robins seek and peck, magpies scavenge

through morning, hawks, spreadeagled

shadows rising on the wind.

Boundless waves of morning wash

on the shore of noon, this moment

the first on earth, the sky never so blue,

sunlight never so bright, as if God

Himself rode the heavens, the crease

of smile interrupting His solemn face,

creation riding His brow.

John Poole is a new writer of poetry. He teaches English education courses at Brigham Young University-Idaho. He finds inspiration for poetry from his students and from his wife and six children. He has taught English in public high school and alternative high schools.