highlands © natalie flemming
I Am The Fool
Please don’t taunt or titter
I am the fool, transcendent
I teeter on the edge of time
and timelessness. My passion
is the universal. In awe, I ask
what can I create for a creator
who builds forests from an acorn
and holds the stars and planets
in the wonder of the cosmos?
Creation has my trust and adoration
dancing in the palm of her hand.
She hands me ideas,slippery things,
little scraps I catch on paper
lest they escape and elude me.
I know I missed the boat
called perfection but my errors
are portals of discovery and there
are times when a little madness
sets me free. I close my eyes, delve
into secrets and the mystical.
My curiosity peers into a future
of infinite creative energy, of life
and death, beyond knowing, all that is,
and all that is not. There lies my muse
she asks me to leap and a net appears.
(written by Gael Bage)
wellies © natalie flemming
Gael Bage came late to poetry, after a career in nursing and nurse management, while raising three children, she has had poems published in Mindfire, Amaze, Loch Raven Review, Fireweed and SAW 2 magazine, including one editor who saw her poems on Sam Hamil’s Poet’s against war site and asked to use them in a Spanish magazine She received an Hon mention for the first haiku she sent to Mainichi haiku contest. One of her favorite forms is the Fibonacci, a workshop article she wrote about Fibonacci and poetry appeared in Mindfire. She believes in the interdependence and Oneness of All and has great respect for universal intelligence expressed through nature. Many of her poems can be accessed at her blog on Gaia.com, under her pen name Zephyr.
Natalie Flemming is a photographer whose work can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ambervisionaire/.
