Summer

Now the sun each dawn is shining
Earth with heav'n in joy aligning
Fear and doubt to hell consigning
Light and shade and dew entwining,
All creation sings!

Fiery sun at noon is blazing;
Heat strikes down, our senses dazing.
Couched in sun, the cows lie gazing.
Bright the stream its pebbles glazing;
Damsel flies flip wings.

Eventide is filled with day light.
Grasses, slivered, shine with spray-light.
Tiny clouds like foam are gay-white.
Gently comes the star-flung twilight
Sweetly bells may ring.

Summer's blessings rain like showers
Days that, golden, stretch their hours;
New-born life can bloom like flowers,
Fledgling birds can try their powers,
Thankful praises sing!

The poet's art

Take a stone

And given the choice, pick one any one

It's opal every time

Found buried without its sparkle

Subterranean Cinders

Pre-transformation scene

Hone it, this stone

Patience and TLC

Craftsman's skill in lieu of magic wand

But same gasp!

See the rainbow

Catch kingfisher caught fire, blue

Blood orange, turquoise

Released in laser light show

Personally I think

I'll never grow immune

Always the heart-lift

A perfect poem

A little low heaven

Beauty held within

Sally, 27.6.2010, Hounoux