Introducing Poetry from Jordan Hadley, 11 years old...

The cat by the window lying in the sun
Not a care in the world, no need to run
Relaxing and purring, taking a snooze
this little cat has nothing to lose
the cat really has nothing to say
He's just sleeping the day away
So, don't wake him or he'll be mad
Thinking about the nap he had

Jordan Albert Hadley

Copyright © 2003 Jordan Albert Hadley
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Poems by Penny Harter

From the book, "Turtle Blessing" published by La Alameda Press
Copyright © 1996 by Penny Harter--included by permission of the author.

For a Great Horned Owl

Tonight, like the early soltice,
the sky swings open,
the stars grow fierce,
and a chill wind rises in the sycamore,
keening among the dead and dying leaves
as it marries the cold to the dark.

Where I live, house after house
turns on its lights;
but on this wind, an owl
in a midnight pine forest
calls across twenty years
because I will not leave the tent
and walk barefoot through the trees
to find her.
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In Deer Country

Part leaf, part shade,
they stand beside the road,
and we are foreign, Out there
at the edge of the clearing,
some drift into the sun,
faces lowered to crop clover,
backs flecked with light.

In deer country, they live
in their own time; even running,
their limbs flow softly into grass,
their bodies weave like water.
They are the old way
of moving on the Earth.
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