Spring Stratagems

Bindweed moves by night;
Creeping up on chainlink
And white queen kisses
Capture diamond spaces.

Raindrops play Go games
Upon spiderweb grids;
Then rainclouds reveal
April’s hidden armies.

Spring is conqueress Yin;
The living “Art Of War”;
Her life force bursting forth
In battle yells of colour.

The silk worm of the earth
Spins her emerald banner.
She takes brutal winter’s
Cold encampment by surprise.

Sun drums the horizon
As the jade empress advances
On chariot wheels of time;
Her sun blades chime.

The dandelion sage
Shatters yang of asphalt;
Her meditating head
Scatters seeds like moonlight.

Blackbird wrestles worm
Of silence with her song
And, poem slow,
The liberated earth
Captures my heart.