April 1984
Old Sol dances in his fields
brilliant yellow
in celebration
on royal blue
at eternity’s edge
prelude to forever
Beneath life’s boughs I lie
and gaze through
to an endless ocean
living sea of light
waves of colour
breaking on the shore
splashing off the world
frolicking on me
and beside
flowing
like waves in the bay
glinting
in the sun
Between the branches
on bare and
budding twigs
birds carol the wind
which holds the dance
they wild gambol
across the skies
specks against infinity
Down in the distance
blue
rolling billows
end the basin
ancient
shadowed
ramparts headed
t’ward the stars
earth taken along
not reluctant
eager
Laughter bubbles
with leaping splash
entwined
narrow ribbon of light
set free
from
deepest
darkest
night
flowing though the field’s
carpet of colour
flowing life
free
exuberant
wild
faithful mirror
yet untrue
In joyful exaltation, the world returns to life
Life - leaping from hill to hill, rolling through the plains
Spring has come, and its music for the soul