These things are mine to treasure

MY LEGACY I have no wealth to leave behind But I give to you, the best . . . Magnificence of the richest kind From God’s great treasure chest There’s summer sunset’s splendor As it paints the heavens red There’s diamond spattered night skies And rainbows overhead There’s dandelions that scatter gold Across earth’s counterpane [...]

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The Beauty of Nature

BEAUTY IN THE WILD In the mountains and the meadows There’s beauty to be seen, And even in the fringe of woods Bright colors mix with green. There is lupine and arbutus Growing near the trees, With some yellow-centered daisies Swaying in the breeze. Abundant scarlet paintbrush, Violets dressed in blue, There’s columbine and trillium, [...]

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Homage to nature

BEAUTY IN THE WILD In the mountains and the meadows There’s beauty to be seen, And even in the fringe of woods Bright colors mix with green. There is lupine and arbutus Growing near the trees, With some yellow-centered daisies Swaying in the breeze. Abundant scarlet paintbrush, Violets dressed in blue, There’s columbine and trillium, [...]

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Beauty when you fly

CAROLINA WREN Little brown wren with beady eye Is there any reason why Your tiny tail points to the sky You leave small stitch-marks in the snow Flicking your tail when on the go Are you trying to wave “hello” You hop around my patio floor Eating seeds placed by my door As countless times [...]

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June

HAIKU My lawn’s white beauty        a cottonwood’s drapery               provides June “dress-up” 3/20/90 Phyllis VanVleck

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She was a poem

HER ESSENCE After she was gone I found scraps of paper everywhere. Each piece torn from whatever was at hand when thoughts possessed her mind, or touched her heart. Little reminders jotted down when senses stirred her to capture a piece of beauty or a fragment of emotion. Words, phrases, ideas upon which she would [...]

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