Wind in my writing tales

There is an in-between season wind blowing outside. The kind I got used to as a child. In the Western Cape it is called the Augustus winde. In school we had to learn poems about die “Augustus Winde”. Now it feels like so long ago! The wind will come moving over the mountains with billowing white clouds against a bright blue sky. Those clouds which made me feel small, as if they can come and envelope me to be dropped in another valley. I tried to hide under the blankets with thick borrowed books and drink lots of coffee finishing all the sugar!

They never came to collect me for a journey to the next valley and it's April in another part of the world. The wind from winter to spring with the promise of summer. Instead of looking at clouds coming over the mountains I study their patterns over the tops of swinging trees. I’m kept alert by the wind chimes outside. I have long ago learnt that no matter how hard they try the clouds can never sweep me away!

Swayed

Swinging with the wind
Firmly rooted
Why
Do I envy you
Big and small tree
Why
Do I feel
Less rooted
Moving about
Free

Solid on the earth
Firmly anchored
Why
Do I envy you
Creaking house
Why
Do I feel
More trapped
Moving about
Free

Stuck in my head
Firmly trapped
Why
Don't I dare you
Words in my mind
Why
Do I fail
To bring you out
Will a walk in the strong breeze
Flush you
About

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 7 April 2011.

Blustering about

Kling klang kling
Wind chimes distracts me
Klang Kling klang
Ceramic dolphins
Swinging free
A fun off-key tune you sing
What pleasure
To my soul
Your kling klang tunes bring

Doom doom doom
The wind in the forest bloom
Hiss hiss hiss
Through the naked trees
Swing swing swing
More stable
Than a puppet
On a string

Creak creak creak
From north to east
The sky bleak
Sunshine today
A shy friend to wind
Movement dynamic
No space in time
For the frantic
My love with this wind
May just be
A little too pedantic

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, April 7, 2011. (Very distracted from commissioned writing!)

Chase it away

Banish
All feelings blue
Embrace
Life’s hassles true
Time to grow
Find a new way through

Banish
All images blue
Hug in close
Inkling ideas new
Birds whisper
Even in winter too
Summer soon here
Bright and new

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe April 7, 2011.