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on clouds and delirious windmills

by Glenn Currier

Did you ever want
to catch a cloud
box it for a summer day
taste cool cirrus wind

converse with a cardinal
on his papal ambitions
your passion and desire
to stroke red feathers

languor with plumeria
try to bloom
in potted soil
crack listless books

roll up the pavement
hear muted hoofs
on a dusty road
read the life of sweaty leather

pin yesterday’s sins
to a rainbow
ride the amber blades
of a delirious windmill?

That is why
God evolved poets and Darwin
joy and wildness
and human imagination.

08/04/2010

Posted on 08/04/2010
Copyright © 2025 Glenn Currier

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by George Hoerner on 08/04/10 at 05:02 PM

I've tried to bloom some where for so long and now I don't recall which weed or flower I'm supposed to be. Good write Glenn.

Posted by V. Blake on 08/04/10 at 05:13 PM

Always a pleasure to read your work, Glenn. This is certainly no exception.

Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 08/04/10 at 05:27 PM

Wonderful images, ideas, even sounds and touch, wonderful poem. Poets are the created creating--a paradox, with all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey. What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the thing at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling,and indeed, fire up the imagination. Thanks.

Posted by Colleen Sperry on 08/04/10 at 07:25 PM

enjoyed this.. loved the fifth stanza

Posted by Ken Harnisch on 08/05/10 at 01:21 AM

I was wondering how I evolved, Glenn..thank you for answering that age-old question..:)

Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 08/05/10 at 02:41 PM

Great zest for life expressed in this poem filled with delightful analogies!

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