POND LIFE

Gosh, Jenny...you've made me long for summer with your lovely poem. We have a small pond in our garden which is undergoing a major 'overhaul' as I speak. Just had tons of sand delivered this morning, and a new liner,and hopefully, this spring it will be full of 'pond life'once again...and not full of mud, as it is at present, and a rather disgruntled man in waders, not quite knowing where to start next!! Tina

This is lovely Jenny.

I think it's lovely too, and like Tina, you carried me away to nicer weather for a minute - thank you!

ScoZen Hello Skinny dipper. I visit a secret pond nearby every so often. Exactly as you portray it. Must go, I've just been bitten by something... Regards

Like all have said Jenny takes you right where most want to be right now. My poem late afternoon wass from a memory of being on a field trip aged eleven and writing down our findings of what we had found searching through a pond. Great minds... ATB FB

This poem made me feel as though I was sitting there on the bank. So atmospheric !! ;)Pia

I like the way you point the lens of your poetry at nature, like a camera; impartially; just showing things as they happen and, just like a nature documentary, your poem is inviting me into a wonderful miniature world full of drama and beauty. You're poem also reminds me a bit of Zen buddhist poetry. Each verse has a haiku like quality; capturing the moment; showing rather than telling but, at the same time, saying something profound about life and interdependency. As a poetic nature photograph I think that this is very accomplished. I can see everything, the light and the color and the movement very vividly. It is very visual, though; like a masterly painting of nature with every small visual detail faithfully represented but without any sounds or smells. Mind you, the absence of sounds also gives me a sense of the quietness of the scene. I also like the way you capture a feeling of real time passing in the poem through your descriptions of movement and stillness. I think I also like how you give great importance to the smallest of things like the "flight of extremely small unknown winged insects" reminding us of how important even the smallest life forms are. There are so many commendable things within this poem but one thing it shows is that you have a particular special talent for painting (in words) moving photo-realistic (and yet impressionistic also) portraits of nature. Re-reading it. I also like the way stillness is broken but reforms like the water which is disturbed by the carp moving "snake like" and I like the subtle way that lighting (just as in the visual arts) is used to indicate mood. It reminds me somewhat of a Monet water-lily painting.

new Skinner-Jennifer Hi! just catching up and reading this gorgeous nature moving beauty poem Of colour and images.Flows just like well-wisher and other's say the way you have brought in everything and movements and stillness and calm of it. Yes,definitely meditation which can be used to soft music,amnd relax the person and imagine all of these things and bring in fountains.Gently massage the shoulders and feather tip the forehead, relaxing the person of worries and anxieties calm music. Sit them in a chair gradually talk to them to relax shoulders neck bottom legs massaging lightly. Of which I did one on here called I think relaxation.They may nod off. It works. Thanks.And we have pond in the park fish nearly gone Carp lot's of flotsam or moss on water running water spring. julie xx

new Skinner_Jennifer Thanks lovely reply, course I am talking from being able to do this after having so much done. But anyone can do this but must be gentle touch and of course one goes behind the back of the chair the person is sitting in and starts etc. I once had cramp in my toes way back,daughter young then massage bit rough it went and locked them again. Shoulders are the salt cellars, place hands and finger tipp gently out bringing in all roses butterflies fountains anything. Some used to stand up in a line at music group and do shoulders and also children now relaxing ways.Not to rock music!!Soft non speaking one. So just try it? I have tapes from past,apart from tripping up three steps bedroom arms full grazed knee and big toe shaken, he just gone out. Better now. How's you you could put this on a tape of soft music and talk all the lovely things in it, there? you'd be made top of the hits. Have a good week-end. Daughters taking me weds; kindly to see "The Black Swan" Ballerina nice never get pictures or flicks used to say. Last week "The Kings Speech" brilliant but adds: bit long before film. Have a good week-end. Neighbour's cat been in "Green Eyes" he is little love cries looks around talk him yes,been on two laps likes to jump up stop the computer going? Take a quite a few photos, and loves look out window.Bit of Siamese in him. Makes me laugh so much,mine never have a cat in. Poem "Green Eyes" done magic cat even if not been too good comes sits on wall, now proved different cries like a baby mean things true! julie hope your ok.

:D ah so this is my pond one? thankyou Jenny it s lovely I fed some huge fish in a rainforest greenhouse place the other day, it was so tranquil in there too :) x K

hope can catch up with more of your writing soon Jenny x

ofcourse you are one of my favourite writers you know :)

:D good x

Within a world within this world... balance and the beating heart of life, can be determined by the hover of a dragonfly's wings and measured by, the wake behind a water boatsman's oars.  You have captured the heart of your pond... Thank you for sharing your talent Jenny.

I love this poem. Makes me feel good inside and its nice to read something so pleasent : ) For whatever reason most the poems and shorts I write are so dark so this was very refreshing.

beautifully written. 

A verbal snapshot of something we all might miss, a simple pool of water is busy with life humming with energy, you captured it so well RAy