A couple more for good measure

Hopefully to get me back into the creative mode!

 

NIGHT SKY.

  

I left late, drawn by the dark night sky

My departure greeted by one shimmering star.

 

Racing clouds scurried across the dark,

 

Wiping clean the velvet of the night.

 

Leaving clear the vast expanse

 

Of night in all its wondrous hues.

 

Then a thousand tiny lights

 

Of distant stars, too far to contemplate.

 

Other worlds or other beings

 

A mighty majesty lain bare.

 

A falling star brings down the eye

 

To gaze on twinkling islands.

 

As cottages their lights ablaze,

Prepare for bed, another day tomorrow.

 

from Home for a Week 1995 

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                                                                     White Hill

                                                                   

                                                                               I came down from the sun-scorched hill

  Roger M. Higgs                                    

                                                                              Into the mellow coolness

  “Words provide                        

  a clear, lasting snapshot               Of the secluded valley.

  of a time, a place                      

  and feelings.                               Hidden by the dusty trees

  Often personal to                      

  the writer,                                 Dressed in their summer clothes,

  evoking                                     

  when returned to,                      There they stood

  that time, place                 

  and feelings.                              Like sentinels,

  But shared,                               

  by all who …..                           To the dappled fields beyond.

  choose to read.”                        

                                                  Motionless, 

                                         Surreal

                                         

                                    Certainly unreal.