Gold and Gray

Photo by Milica Spasojevic on Unsplash

Sunlight filters down

Leaving golden patches

Like a forgotten crown

Oak leaves cast shade

Locking gold with gray

In a long unkept braid

Shifting across the rocks

First here, then there

Like a worried flock

Yet nothing moves nor stirs

And the eye travels o’r the wild things

Wrapped up with invisible furs

Written for dVerse

The Elephants' Jamboree

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash

A parade of elephants goes marching up and down

All dolled up in silk cravats and ruffled gowns

They sashay and foxtrot and do the hokey pokey

Round and round they go dancing about the town

They tumble and get back up and then repeat

There’s not one couple that can stay on beat

And the gentlemen are stepping on the ladies’ toes

For don’t you know, all elephants have two left feet

And when the dancing’s over for the night

The entire company will have such an enormous appetite

They’ll pull up chairs for a rich repast of cakes

And peanuts and scones topped with cream so frothy white

Written for dVerse.

The Wyrm and the Knight

Photo by Iswanto Arif on Unsplash

Dank and dark and drear

Lack of light down here

Steep and slick with slime

Sides too treacherous to climb

Grim and ghastly through the gloom

Wyrm that ushered us to the tomb

Bold and brave: the knight 

She set the wyrm to flight

Written for dVerse.