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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘breeze’
These things are mine to treasure
Posted in Free Verse, Inspirational, Memories, My Thoughts, Nature, Poetry, tagged beauty, breeze, choirs, counterpane, dandelions, diamonds, legacy, moonbeams, rainbow, summer, tr, treasure, wealth on Wednesday,December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Free Verse for fall
Posted in Free Verse, Nature, Poetry, tagged bird, breeze, bumblebee, fluttering, garden, leaf, perfume, pungent on Tuesday,October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SEDUCING MY SENSES What was it that I saw? A bird fluttering to the ground? No, just a leaf that released its hold. But, oh, what a leaf, to deceive my aging eyes. I should have known, with such pungent scent in the air. Burning leaves casting their aroma on the gentle breeze that tickles [...]
Summer’s beauty.
Posted in Cinquain, Nature, Poetry, tagged breeze, freedom, hobo, parachutes, pods, summer on Friday,September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DRY MILKWEED PODS Dry pods crack and open; then scores of parachutes hobo a late summer breeze to freedom. 8/1/05 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Lilacs, a Cinquain
Posted in Cinquain, Nature, tagged breeze, bush, lilac, scent on Friday,July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FRAGRANT SCENT Fragrant scent fills the air, riding on a spring breeze along the fence where bushes grow lilacs. 8/1/05 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Moment to remember
Posted in Animals, Memories, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged breeze, cobalt sky, earth, hair, insect, lilac, moon, tease on Thursday,July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FEELING THE MOMENT In darkness of a cobalt sky, the breezes sigh and tease my hair, while in the air the lilacs fling their sweetest scent . . . a night’s accent, as insects croon to earth’s full moon, and lightening bugs morse code the night with blinking light; I feel these things this moment [...]
A still night Haiku
Posted in Animals, haiku, Nature, Poetry, tagged breeze, cricket, love, night on Monday,June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HAIKU In the night’s stillness a cricket’s strident love call carries on the breeze 3/18/90 Phyllis VanVleck