Spring

serene Sunday
winter snows
forgotten

How High Can You Climb?

face
to
face

Lust For Life

A long time in the salty sea
the sea anemone
attached to coral and stone
waits
until a passing fish
triggers
venom-filled
tentacles.
Anemone fires
a harpoon filament,
injects the fish with toxin
and gently, ever so gently,
the tentacles guide the prey
into anemone's mouth.

Pollen-coated Bumble Bee

Green Tree Frog

Seething with
creative furor,
restless sleeper
keeping vigil,
you sing
rain showers
into being.

Ancient Redwood Burl

Encapsulated seeds
of verdant life
genetically
identical to
Mother Tree.

Woody swelling
waiting
to burst forth
in times of stress
ensuring

immortality.

Memorial Day

Thank you.

Brown Sunday

Brown emits
no light,
to astronomers'
eyes.

No matter...
brown
grounds,
stimulates
the appetite.

White Saturday

Transcendent Perfection

Purple Friday

The Highest Glory

Red Thursday

The zenith of color—
activity
creativity
energy of life

Wednesday Yellows

Revealed Truth

Tuesday Greens

Vernal Green—
immortality,
hope,
the growth
of the Holy
Spirit
in man.

Monday Blues

The coolness of the heavens
above
and the waters
below

Serenity

old pond
the flower rests
on the waters of repose

Eagle Eye

"L is for the way you
Look at me..."

-Nat King Cole

Flower of Light

Roots in the
slime, then a
growing upward through
opaque waters until
you flower in the sun
and light
of heaven.

Perfection of Beauty

Pretty in Pink

What do you think
When you see

Pink?

Creation

What were you
created to do?

Morning Yoga

I Spy

I SPY
A SPIDER

Mother's Day

No matter where the dew drops
In a mother's heart
Each petal
Is special

Shadows

Garter Snake

Twenty-four hours in a day times
nine days equals
216 hours of rain,
after which a ball of fire
in the sky
entices
you from the deck's
underbelly
onto the warm stone.

Pushing Upward

Elephant's Eye

In the
Elephant's Eye
my-
self reflected.
Though
there's no
evidence of
Ancient Burial Grounds,
there's proof
they do
caress
the bones
of their dead

and weep.

Hungry Hummer

early morning
hummer taps my window pane

empty feeder

Wilhemina

We call her Wilhemina
Tall and willowy though she be
Her low and sweeping branches
Create for him
A canopy.

Keeping Vigil

against the blue sky
keeping vigil just in case
something this way comes

Seventh Day

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made

Gen. 2:2
King James Bible

Birth Day

You emerge

Perfectly formed
From the moist, warm
Womb.
The first breath
Is harsh.
You hiss with disdain
As she calmly cleans you,
Nudges you,
Encourages you,
Until you sigh
with weak resign
And rise
To meet
Your life.