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Windstem

  • Photo of grass and sky
  • Photo of water reeds and sunlight reflections
  • Photo of grasses and sky
  • Photo of dune grass in sunlight
  • Photo of water reeds in lake
  • Photo of water grasses in pool
  • Photo of grasses and sky
  • Photo of grass meadow
  • Photo of water grasses in stream
  • Photo of grass
  • Grass seed head
  • Reeds
  • Grasses
  • Grass heads
  • grass
  • Water Reeds
  • Grasses
  • Skygrass 1
  • Watergrass 1
  • Skygrass 2
  • Skygrass 3
  • Watergrass 2
  • Watergrass 3
  • Skygrass 4
  • Skygrass 5
  • Watergrass 4
  • Skygrass 6
  • Skygrass 7
  • Watergrass 5
  • Skygrass 8
  • Skygrass 9
  • Skygrass 10
  • Watergrass 6
  • Skygrass 11

What I love about the family of grasses are the common names – Velvet Bent, Leatherleaf Sedge, Dropseed.

One poem ‘Watergrass’ is taking shape:

 

I am rooted in water but breathe in air;

amphibian in lifestyle –

the best of both worlds.

 

I do not fear the prowling current;

my predator is the wind.

In good humour, he plays me like a tune

but if inclined, he can snap me in two.

So I’ve learned to be pliant

though bending with the wind

is viewed as unprincipled by some.

 

I tend to the gregarious

swaying with my siblings like a football crowd.

The year takes its toll.

Come winter, our number is depleted –

a rag-tag band of veterans.

 

But you do not see what happens

deeper down

where I am rooted in the watery silt;

 

at anchor in the dark.

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