Zephyr

 

Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun-soaked grasses tangle
With mottled teal blades
Frolicking all together
While buttercups gambol

Startled skirts skitter
Twist this way and that
Folding between blues
Dipping in purple and white

The jade parasol pines
For a place in the sky
Canopy spread wide
Bobbing like a buoy

Rippling clouds gleam
Rich with silver and pearl
Rolling in summer waves
Rollicking across the sun

So the breezes twirl
Whisking through clover
Puffs of ivory and cornflower
Fluttering with the wind

 

Written for dVerse.

 

Midnight

Photo by McGill Library on Unsplash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.
Cold hearth
Filled with soot
And tears

2.
Sisters in velvet upstairs
Stepsister below
In ashes and despair

3.
Orchestral violins
Send forth dreams
Drifting over embers

4.
In the flames
Glowing fairy glass
Melts into slippers

5.
Princess at the ball
In scintillating silk
Becomes a fairytale  

Written for dVerse.

 

 

Vicissitude

Photo by Hossein Farahani on Unsplash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.
Smooth eggs in the nest
Shiver and chip and flake
Over the flightless chick
Passing its first test

2.
Salt crested waves slide
Disturbing tiny grains
Rearranging patterns in the sand
Washing them away with the tide

3.
Granules of yeast lift
As the loaf bathes in heat
Transcending flour and water
Into a heavenly gift

4.
Crumbs of frozen lace
Drift down from bloated clouds
Shrouding the dying fields
With an icy embrace

5.
So the world spins
Day swims down to night
The waxing moon appears
And the next phase begins

A Cadralor written for dVerse.