CHRISTMAS FERN

 

Christmas ferns

Abundant and evergreen

With Pinnate leaves

In lance-shaped fronds

Dense clusters of

Featherlike leaflets

In wide display

Decorate the

Christmas landscape

Of North America

WIND AND TEMPEST

 

Wind and tempest

Rain and flood

The chimney falls

With a thud

After the lightning storm

And booming thunder

Uprooted trees

Roofs torn asunder

But in the calm

As we convalesce

In the aftermath

There is a cleanness

DAYLIGHT WAS DECLINING

 

Daylight was declining

As twilight loomed

As behind the horizon

The sun was consumed

PEACH BELLS

 

Peach Bells

European perennial

Bellflower with racemose

Of white or blue

RED SUNSET

 

The red sunset is for lovers

Who sigh with lovesick bliss

And in the glow of a blood red sky

The lovers stand and kiss

STUNG BY HAIL AND RAIN

 

Stung by hail and rain

And colds numbing bite

And cut through like a knife

By the east-wind’s spite

BENEATH THE LEAFY CANOPY

 

Beneath the leafy canopy

Moonlight pierced the darkness

And shafts of lunar light

Like a brilliant laser show

Illuminated the forest floor