Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Nature

  • Moon Rise

    Great shining orb ascending

    Painting clouds with a rosy glow

    The flaming light breaks the horizon

    Caught in slivers by waves below

    Emerging by seconds into the sky

    A perfect stone of reflected light

    On an ever-changing trajectory

    To project the sun into the night

    Reflected glory of a greater light

    Freely showered on us here

    To guide the creatures of the night

    And remind us that day is near

    While echoing across the waves

    In beams so silent and so strong

    The moon yet faithfully shines down

    To hold our dreams the whole night long

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  • There to Stay

    Snow on the ground is there to stay

    In piles or snowmen or snowplowed towers

    For even days upon days of sunny skies

    Do not melt what came down in a dozen hours

    As the snow turns to ice, and ice to slush

    There seems no way to make it rush

    For the ocean-like blanket thrown all around

    So slowly, so slowly seeps into the ground

    So just, when it’s snowing, be ready to say

    “Snow on the ground is there to stay”

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  • Snowfall

    So silently, so swiftly,

    The snowflakes softly fall,

    Weaving for the frozen earth

    An icy, glistening shawl

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  • Sidewalk’s End

    Icy jewels along a winter river

    Suspended mid-air on stalks that shiver

    A precious treasure for the one who bends

    To look in the place where the sidewalk ends

    Smooth drops of glass molded to perfection

    Shaping the world with swirling refraction

    A kaleidoscope of hues that transcends

    What’s left in the place where the sidewalk ends

    Glitter sprinkled in the drab of winter

    Catching the scarce rays of sun that splinter

    A mystery of water and light that lends

    The lure to the place where the sidewalk ends

    A gift more impressive than royal jewels

    Beautifully clothed from translucent spools

    Waiting to share this great wonder with friends

    Who now know the place where the sidewalk ends

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  • New Life

    You may not see possibility

    In winter’s dried up, frozen ground

    Just wait til brave green shoots emerge

    Tulips proclaim that spring’s around

    The corner – flowering trees are soon

    Adorned in fragile pink and white

    Then long-awaited leaves emerge

    To triumph, bring in summer’s light

    So too a struggle, hope, or life

    May seem suspended in the cold

    The buried seeds still live, beneath

    They fight to break through and take hold

    The buds will come, the green appear

    Though small and slow, they will prevail

    And blossom strong in victory

    To show the world that said they’d fail

    For what you sow is not made alive

    Unless it falls to the ground and dies

    Deep within hope must always survive

    Until it has grown full wings and flies

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  • Mysteries

    Fragile with a chance of rainbows

    Flat glass somehow bending light

    Reflected like blue icy shadows

    Create a rainbow just from white

    Prism altering life’s sight

    Tiny with a chance of greatness

    Mere speck somehow growing broad

    Blossomed like a trusted promise

    Create a flower from sun and sod

    Seed sown on the path we trod

    Quiet with a chance of power

    Small drops somehow making seas

    Washed in like unfailing clockwork

    Create the tide for centuries

    Oceans bring life on their breeze

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