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9/17/12

Sunlit

Blue sky meadow and evergreen...


In sunlit blue sky meadow
rises deadwood tree,
standing, stately, stature still
revered, protected, fondly,
by longtime companions
evergreen...

9/15/12

Lights That Beacon

High timber guides through shrouded canyonland...


Through the mists with lights as beacons and high timber
that guide us through shrouded mortal canyonland.
We head down a road that twists and turns
round a bend and then lifts upward,
onward to evergreen heights unmanned.

Ah! At last...
Sierra vast with boundless vision for which we yearned.

9/14/12

Bird Chirping In Tree

Coaxing sun burning through clouds...


In the urban landscape a tree reaches
skyward underneath somber clouded mask.
In this desert no phenomenon natural or otherwise,
heaven or earth, escapes the blaze of sun.
In deference to its natural calling
a bird chirps, coaxing and taunting muted sun.

9/9/12

Sunflowers Basking in Light

Bedding against the granite wall...


In defiance of the gravelly ground
crumbs of weathered granite wall,
among quarrelsome arable terra firma
for seeds, roots and sowing...
determined sunflowers nourish,
basking efflorescence in light.

In courage among former rock-bound
dregs of paltry earthen landfall,
toiled agreeably brushing desert delta
mesh arid, rocky to growing...
destined inflorescence flourish,
upward thrusting to height.