ON A STORMY NIGHT

 

On a stormy night

As stranger’s slumber

Around the gables

The wild wind howled

And rain hit the panes

Like thrown gravel

As the lightning struck

And thunder growled

FLAME TREES

 

Flame trees in the jungle

Petals like tongues of fire

Burning bright in paradise

FROM THE BREAK OF EACH NEW DAWN

 

From the break of each new dawn

When heralding the new day

The sun crests the horizon

To Paint the eastern sky

With natures orange glow

Until it sets again

In majestic splendour

Beyond the western hills

And is swallowed by the darkness

It gives life with its benevolent light

AMIDST THE MYRIAD STARS

 

Amidst the myriad stars

The bright crescent moon

Hangs in the midnight sky

And palely paints the ocean

With its gentle lunar light

MELLOW YELLOW

 

Like surreal yellow oceans

Vast fields of yellow rape

Stretch across the landscape

To an unseen infinity

The breeze ripples their surface

Whipping them up like waves

Ahead of an offshore wind

Driving them ever onward

Towards the hedgerow shore

While birds appear to dance

Above the custard coloured sea

THE RED SQUIRREL

 

The red squirrel

Cute arboreal Character

Once abundant in our woodland

Now small in number

Only survive in small pockets

Thanks to the grey intruder

A DEW DROP SLOWLY ROLLS

 

A dew drop slowly rolls along the broad leaf

Like a perfect pearl, it moves on its journey brief

Before dropping off the edge to a rivulet below

And the pearl disappears into the mercurial flow