R.T. Sedgwick
Come down from your pine-covered hill
through clumps of wild daisies
step along the rocky path,
chill of morning deep inside you,
your own walking keeping you warm
and let the sun as it climbs its own hill
reflect a brightness on the lagoon below,
giving depth to the sea-birds—cormorants
egrets, ducks and herons—look around,
reeds bending in the breeze, soil
giving beneath your feet and remember,
as though you had picked some daisies
and are holding a bouquet of them
over the water’s edge and you see their
reflection along with your own smiling face
and the willingness of your ruffled hair
to obey the commands of the wind
R. T. Sedgwick is a poet living in Del Mar, CA. He has attended Harry Griswold’s Pleasures of Poetry workshop for the last nine years, Idyllwild Summer Arts Poetry in 2005 through 2010 and has participated in a Master Poetry Workshop lead by Dr. Sam Hamod in 2007 and 2009. He spent one week in 2006 at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA studying under poets Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar. He is currently enrolled in a monthly critique group that meets in Rancho Bernardo, CA. He has four books of poetry, “Forgotten Woods”, “Harmony of a Storm”, “Sand Castles”, and “Circles and Lines” published by sedgwickARTcards, Del Mar, CA, as well as numerous poems published in various anthologies and periodicals.
