OH MOTHER NATURE

 

Oh mother nature

You both care and nurture

Bursting out in spring,

When the songbirds sing

Bringing daffodils so bright

To fill me with delight,

They shine with ease

Bobbing in the breeze

Dancing as if one

As golden as the sun

Blossom fills the trees

Bright enough to tease

Before the blossom has to go

Like cherry pink snow

And after spring hors d’oeuvres

And starters have been served

You bring us summer fare

With fragrance in the air

Flowers of every shade and hue

From crimson red to violet blue

Then as September wends

And the main course ends

You take no time to rest

Giving the bounty of the harvest

AUTUMN TREASURE

All was calm, in the morning

After the autumn storm

Had stripped bare the trees

And swept the fallen harvest

To havens sheltered from the gale

In the calm clear night

The frost crisped the land

Holding all in suspended animation

Everything where it fell

As the sun strengthened

To melt away the frost

Leaves spill from the bottom of hedgerows

Like golden coins from treasure chests

In a vast well filled vault

Soon enough this fallen bounty

Would again be scattered

Across the landscape

On the next autumnal weather front 

ROMANCE BY THE SHORE

 

Walking together, hand in hand,

As we strolled across wet sand

The sun sets, as the day grows old

Turning silver seas to shining gold.

We continue our walk in twilight

Before the moon illuminated the night

And the stars adorned the heavens

But the sea breeze soon freshens

And surf moved higher up the shore

So we headed back home once more

ON THE EDGE OF A STORM

 

Swooping Gulls screech alarms

High above the cliff top

As white horses ride the waves below

And the tide is broken to a stop

 

AS THE STORM FRONT CLOSES IN

 

As the storm front closes in

The Gulls desert the cliff top

To find safe haven deep inland

And wait for the storm to stop

THE MAJESTIC DISTANT MOUNTAINS

 

The majestic distant mountains,

Timeless sentinels, pale in the mist

Reach up to the sky like children

Expectantly waiting to be kissed

CACOPHONIC CHORUS

 

As if to chase the night away

And herald the dawn’s arrival

Birds awaken bright as the day

With the cacophonic chorus

Before the sun comes into view

To turn the sky from black to blue