Poems
by Diane Webster

 

Footprints

 

A pedestrian presses his shoe print

into the wet cement while voices

inside cheer his achievement.

 

A pedestrian stands too long

and metamorphoses

into a street statue

frozen in a step forward

forever pondering

his destination.

 

 

 

 

 

Up Or Down

 

The flight of stairs

zigzags up the wall

to end at a door

built for entrance.

 

The flight of stairs

bumbles down the wall

to abandon the traveler

to his own prospects.

 

 

 

 

 

Entrance

 

The actress makes her entrance

to the stage through the entrance

that allows her access to the audience

where she acts so intently

the crowd sits entranced

as if the stage twinkles in fireflies

until the curtain falls

to cricket applause.

 

 

 

 

 

Fall Illusions

 

Four tattered leaves

cling to a central stem

securing the siblings

as they decay

on the forest floor finally

releasing four freed

stems to intimidate

smaller spiders

into scurrying away

from the mutant

daddy longlegs.

 

 

 

 

 

Generations

 

The little pine tree wraps

its limb around the big

tree’s trunk, a boy and father

hand in hand face the lake,

watch the sunset hypnotize

the sky and water all the way

to hidden-treasure nightfall.

 

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