Lapping at earth’s floor
Taking some but leaving more
Waves washing the shore

Beams of lost sunlight
Hand of God sets from our sight
Bringing on the night

Sweeping twilight skies
Pull us toward nighttime sighs
Till we reach sunrise

Eyes stealing a glance
Little hands will take a chance
Raccoons own romance

Prairie sounds of dawn
Shadows drift, as they grow long
Winds whisper their song

The bridges luring me
Toward an unknown destiny
Beckons endlessly

A bridge is implied
Where the chasm became wide
Across the divide

Winter's dying light
Hovers on the edge of night
Soon the world turns white

Autumn leaves flutter
As nature ebbs and mutters
Its mirror shudders

Sunrise dances bright
Rainbows made of spectral light
Chasing off the night

Sunset's out of sight
Clouds reflect the loss of light
Heaven falls to night

Driftwood lost its tide
Keeping safe whatever hides
Sand and stones inside

Silhouettes of lace
Echoing a distant place
Palms swaying with grace

Buzzing in the air
Touching down without a care
Flitting everywhere


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Purple violet sky
Angry clouds begin to cry
Autumn falls on high

Over natures moat
Castles of the cavemen float
Under heavens coat

Swamp of rotting reeds
Filled with cat nine tails and weeds
Home to future seeds

Cactus prickly
Standing guard in lei of trees
Desert sentries

Warming carves a path
Through the winter's bitter wrath
Into springtime’s bath

Waves cleansing the land
Washing over best laid plans
Footprints on the sand

Flowers on the pond
Little pads that frogs rest on
While they sing their song

Jumping from a hedge
Living life out on a ledge
Resting on the edge

Wings upon the wind
Sends them back to where they’ve been
There the air is thin

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Shadows fill my mind
Changing colors echo time
Painting God’s design

Ripples with a shake
Floating in a gentile wake
Bubbles on the lake

Mirrored reflections
Without life’s imperfections
Accord deceptions

Nightfall crystalline
Heaven sends you as a sign
Life is but divine

Dark shadows falling
Through lines that light is drawing
Nighttime is calling

Daybreak crystalline
Framed beyond the ancient pine
Majesty divine

Share and share alike
You give green and I'll give white
In a toast of life

Opposites attract
Take a chance and don’t look back
Nothing is exact

Perfectly aligned
As the wings of life rewind
Patchwork quilt designs

Lightly dance on air
Show the world you have no cares
Flutter everywhere

Heaven within sight
Clouds obliterate the light
Passing with the night

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Fly where warm winds blow
When you arrive life will grow
Seeding nature's show

Reaching toward the sky
From the bed where rivers lie
Beauty simplified

Natures fiery death
Golden streams of wrath expressed
With the days last breath

Flaming rays at dusk
Fill the skies with streaks of rust
Disappear they must

From the forest floor
Shadows leading through a door
To a lakeside shore

Flowers of the field
Pushed aside they bend and yield
Majesty revealed

Dining by the sea
Friends flocked in to feast with me
Thinking lunch was free

Dawn thunders alive
Gold and orange paint the skies
Nature heaves a sigh

Reaching toward the sky
Fingers touch and voices sigh
Wishing we could fly

Lives are set adrift
With the current shorelines shift
Waves into the cliffs

Misty seas at dawn
Breath of nature thick and strong
Gargles in its song

Waters swift and white
Clear and cold reflecting light
A majestic sight

Rapids race through time
As the days of life unwind
Grapes are turned to wine

Canopied array
Gold reflects on greens in play
Shadows pave the way

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We don't see eye to eye
The two of us don't even try
No one wonders why

The eye of God sees
Through the clouds of destiny
To eternity

Fantasy potion
Touching my hearts emotion
Aurora ocean

Ripples touch the pond
Mirroring the world at dawn
Strengthening life's bond

Light leading ahead
Twilight from the forest bed
Looking back instead

Lurking in the brush
Hidden from the hunters rush
Alert for the flush

All I’m dreaming of
Manna from the lord above
Sheltered in your love

Fingers reaching up
They can never get enough
Hands are red and rough

Blossoms from the trees
Drifting downward on the breeze
Floating to the seas

With darkness in sight
Just before and after night
Sunshine dancing light

Twisting into earth
Reaching toward the suns rebirth
Heaven's seed is freed

In a sea of leaves
Shielded by a hemlock tree
Flowers destiny

Different yet alike
Walking together through life
Might aside of flight

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Life begins and ends
Side by side its branches bend
As twilight descends

Whisperings of trees
Reaching for eternity
Destiny makes leaves

Light dances and flows
Designing in the shadows
While winter wind blows

Alone in the night
Waiting for the dawn of light
To burst into flight

Through a shadowed maze
Forgotten footsteps of days
Lost in winter’s haze

Leaves rustling their worth
Autumn’s sleep and spring’s rebirth
Carpeting the earth

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Black and brown and white
Tall or short with spots or stripes
Different yet alike

Shallows of life’s bay
Drifting into yesterday
Memories washed away

Autumn moves along
Reflections of summer gone
Impressionists pond

Beauty brought to sight
Leaves of green and petals bright
Dewdrops quenching life

Tranquility's path
Invites Possibilities
Through natures windows

Eyes of the ocean
Reflecting natures notions
Mirrors in motion

Warmer waters flow
From out the darkness below
The cold melting snow

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