Natural Poetry

Inspired by nature.

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Bold rider of the dawn,
On flaming hooves, with flaring eyes—
She lances forth with tongue of fire
And burns the veil away.
Grey, secretive mists turn to silver blaze—
All things come to light
Under the eyes of truth.

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Hail to King Winter. Solemn face
and wise eyes, gnarled
scepter in his hand—palm
raised for justice, glowing with
the cool light of snow.
Frost trails in his wake,
from silver-white flowing robes.
Do not hate him. He is the king of Justice—
All are equal in the eyes of the storm.

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White-crowned misty swathes thrown o’er lofty peaks!
The wind-god was careless in your flighty deposition.
A dancing blaze of silver in an endless puppet show
Tickles the bold fancy of the children of the earth.
Sunlight spinning above and within your gauzy folds,
A passion-play of light reflects and plays upon your cap—
Would that you could carry man the way you carry wind and light!
Forever then we’d journey in the silent world of ever-blue.

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The mountains are burning.
Gold and green can’t disguise
The flaming boughs,
Colors blazing
In high symphony to the eyes.
The fire rolls across the canvas
Of greening trees, enraging them,
Draping them in burning raiment
And laughing as a wild storm
That has breached the summer calm.
Nature’s painter has arrived
And, in perverse fancy,
Has found the motif of flame
To spray across the hills.

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The sun fell into the pond,
and threw up ripples at its entrance,
careless diver that he is.
The water turned all red and gold when he came—
No doubt it was glad of the warmth
after so many days of silvery cool.
I wondered if he might have gotten lost in his play,
as a long dark curtain stretched above our heads,
and the hours dragged on without his return.
But he rose again bright and blazing the next day,
refreshed, I imagine, from the journey.
I think I’ve found the passageway from the earth to the sky.