ON STRONG WINGS

 

On strong wings

In perfect flight

The eagle appears

Slowly circling

Until its prey

Comes into view

And it swoops

To take its victim

Majestically on the wing

And carries the spoils

To the hungry mouths

Waiting in the eyrie

THE EAGLE SOARS

The eagle soars

On majestic wings

Effortless in flight

Riding thermals

In the distant sky

IN THE MOIST EARLY MORNING

 

In the moist early morning

Dew drops embrace

The willow stems

Like lovers tears

Until they evaporate

Under the sunlight’s caress

ABOVE THE HORIZON

 

Above the horizon

The beauty of a sunrise,

Slowly emerges and

Illuminates the sky

And as it spreads into the morn

It burns red on the calm water

As a cool pleasant breeze

Drifts gently across the bay

GALES ARE DRIVING WAVES

 

Gales are driving waves

Against the resilient shore,

And pounding

Them on to the rocks,

While on the edge of the wind

There is distant thunder sounding

NARWHALE

 

The narwhale lived year-round

In the Arctic waters around

Greenland, Canada, and Russia

Along with its cousin the Beluga

The narwhale males fished

The waters, and are distinguished

With its long straight helical horn

Like a predatory arctic unicorn

IN THE DEPTHS OF PURPLE CLOUDS

 

In the depths of purple clouds

Soft and temperate as the night

Masks the setting of the sun

And hides the fading of the light