Edmund V. Strolis Poems

Jump the creek in one leopard's leap
No need for the bridge or stepping stone
Mind your step around Mr. Jack-in-the-pulpit.
He has found a grand and stately home
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No lantern is cast in the north country hamlet
Nestled before the ever misty swamps and forests
A path leading nowhere is said to exist for passage
No boot stirs the soil, only the hooves of a demon
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Plan B belongs to me
It's all I have to see me through
When all the love has come and gone
A simple plan to carry on
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A stretch of beach under moonlight
Silver snake shimmering with the waves
Invisible white caps churning, crashing
Perpetual motion, roaring darkness
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Oh how we smiled as a child
The earth was one big bauble
Each moment lit eternal
In this dandelion kingdom
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Come home won't you? You have been away so long.
We miss your easy ways, your silver lining smile.
These days are good but ours were better
You spin such stories with joy and laughter
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I confess to know nothing as concerns matters of the heart
I do not pretend to know what hides beneath the surface
These days I see lips moving, forming expert opinions.
Insights, analysis, caution and cures and other useless drivel.
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When I pass your country meadow
When I travel that peculiar lane
I slow and glance and sometimes stop
To read a marker and to ponder a name
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Legs carry me once more to a familiar place
Let me shake with the rattling winter grass
Let the northern winds howl and speak to me
Beyond the noise and the shallow games of men
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Mother's plant from her mystic garden
I cherish it in remembrance
Moving it in winter was a challenge
Will it see another spring?
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