Jennifer shares evocative nature haikus capturing fleeting moments of wilderness and sky on DifferentTruths.com.
through
the airplane window
I can almost touch the rain
***
storm brewing
lights dim, cue the action
electricity in the air
***
after the rain
my heart and the sky
washed clean
***
releasing you
star after star after star
night sky
***
resting on your shore
I pause to ponder
inhaling the day
***
heart-shaped rocks
follow me on my walk
love’s footprint
***
flash of white tail
as you bound into the forest
my heart races, still
***
a bobcat out my window
in the middle of broad daylight
I must be seeing things
***
bears in our neighbourhood
rotating with the trash cycle
the edge of the wild
***
floating in the dawn
before the day breaks
morning’s gloaming
Picture Design by Anumita Roy
Jennifer Gurney, based in Colorado, teaches, paints, writes, and hikes. Her poems have appeared internationally in 11 books and won two contests. They have also been set to music, displayed on screens in Australia, printed in Washington, D.C., shared through the Rx Poetry project, and featured on a bus in Wisconsin. A lifelong writer, she says that at 62, joy and sorrow finally give her enough depth to write a decent poem now and then.
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