Dewdrops touch daybreak
Life awakens to the mist
Haze lifts when sun kissed

Nature’s speculum
Changing with the drifting clouds
Through seasons of time

From mountainous heights
We gaze in taciturn wonder
Into the abyss

Inside a flower
Sweetly scented pollen waits
Till wind stirs its fate

Breath of summers lawn
Rising near a spring fed pond
Disappears at dawn

Crystalline delight
Mountain meadow snared by light
Most exquisite sight

Death gropes silently
From within a world of green
Floating in life's stream

The flower bleeds red
With thorns excavating flesh
While fragrance draws breath

Seas and seasons run
Seeking shelter from the sun
Sands of time undone

Charred remains of bliss
Blazing skies plunge to darkness
Sunsets final kiss

© 2005 JVD