Tuesday, 3 May 2022

SWEET BELLS

 

Sweet bells

Long racemes

Of pinkish flowers

Abundant on

Bushy Deciduous shrubs

Across eastern States

IN SHADES OF RED AND ORANGE

 

In shades of red and orange

The sky burns with fire

Clouds in sunset are illuminated

Like smoke in a funeral pyre

 

WHISPERING BELLS

 

Whispering bells

The viscid herb

Inhabiting the arid places

With its sticky leaves

And pendulous bell like

Yellow flowers

Blooming in the desert

Of the south-western states

FRESH SNOW ABSORBED ALL SOUNDS

  Fresh snow absorbed all sounds As it fell steadily on the landscape The quiet becoming eerily magical All hushed, peaceful and pri...