Luna

for dVerse                                   

                                     full gibbous glimmer

                                     maiden aunt

                                     watching playful stars

                                     

nieces and nephews    

sitting still                   

only for moon’s stories

                                    

                                     ancient silver tales

                                     of magic

                                     wolves and unicorns

Wish

for dVerse

As the maple leaves fall down from the trees

Tossed and carried by the mellifluous breeze

Wish on each glorious red soaring leaf

And watch your wishes blown with belief

Riding on the russet air sailing boats

Higher and higher in the sky they float

Then plummet like a joyful roller coaster

And pop up again like toast from a toaster

Stand there and watch until the breeze ends

Catch the leaf in hand; see what it portends

Shining red gold like a fairy’s song

Hold it close; gaze at it often and long

Somewhere on that autumn day your wish took flight

Now follow it always into the light

Fern Fairy

for dVerse

River sallies through the emerald valley;

ferns twine and twist in the soft breeze gently.

While white mist shrouds the valley in magic,

fern queen rests in her living green hammock.

Over seeing her realm of fairies, birds

clover, redwoods, bees; entwined with the ferns.

All hers from great tree to tiny sporange,

prowling cats and fishes spotted orange.

Hers to guard and hers to keep and hold sound-

ly. So she keeps her vigil o’er her ground.

At her woven throne her subjects shower

thanks. And with laurel wreaths they endow her;

spider silk, saffron slippers, almond milk,

acorn caps, mustard seeds, and patchwork quilts.

This is their world tucked between the ferns,

and all this is safe beneath her sojourn.

Sporange - A real word that does indeed rhyme with orange. It is a form of sporangium, which is  where spores are produced in plants like ferns.