O little soldier with the golden helmet,
What are you guarding on my lawn?
You with your green gun
And your yellow beard,
Why do you stand so stiff?
There is only the grass to fight!

(C) Hilda Conkling
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Hilda Conkling

• Moon Song
• Gift
• Three Loves
• Humming-bird
• Butterfly
• Envoy
• Preface
• The White Cloud
• Hills
• Velvets
• Poems
• Song
• Bluebird
• Poppy
• Water
• Hay-cock
• Thoughts
• Weather
• Morning
• Clouds
• Easter