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 [...]

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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,
And coneflower’s purple hue.
Lilies curling petals down –
Their orange [...]

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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,
And coneflower’s purple hue.
Lilies curling petals down –
Their orange [...]

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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 [...]

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