Brilliant flash
Following roar
Waking me from
My midnight snore
Storm rumbling in the night
Hopefully passed by dawn’s new light
I dread to think of emerging forth
In the face of driving rain
And electric force
Padre
Awakened Pondering
Nature
Blackthorn Hedge
Delicate blossoms like tiny stars
Constellations white against green presented
Inviting – though housed amidst biting thorn
Being drawn too close – a thing to be regretted
A boundary natural -yet by men planned
A symbol of ownership over the land
And still the hedge is a world its own
Where sparrow and hedgepig make their home
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Padre
Shrouded
In sheets of vapour
Shrouded, obscured
Air hanging thickly
Absorbing light and word
A silence unnatural
Daylight does delay
As morning lingers
Until midday
Padre
Storm
A day a bit more than breezy
Making getting home less than easy
Trees down and roof tiles blowing
Twigs and rubbish aloft going
Two storms in quick succession
Is mother nature teaching us a lesson?
Padre
Fate
drifting aimlessly
with no true destination
only the fates know
Padre
Weaver
With dew moistened strands
Your work displays
Now not as effective
As in warmer days
As autumn – like summer
Comes to pass
Is your knit-work all of you
That will last?
Padre
Monarch’s Chair
Monarch of the Wood, I have seen your chair
Why was it that you were not there?
Is it that your realm invasion faces
With plastic, and filth in your precious places?
Have you gone – your lands to defend?
Shall you return at the battle’s end?
Or shall we weep that you have fled the place?
Please say, I pray, that’s not the case
Padre
Second Life
orange
purple and green
secondary colours
reflecting caterpillar’s life
renewed
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Padre
As Bumbles Buzz
As bumbles buzz along their daily path
And the blooms of summer begin to fade
Fruit ripens turning gold or red
And thoughts of school impending fills our head
A perfect season comes to close
We await the days shortening – growing cold
We watch a butterflies their final rounds make
And in the evening tales of summer adventures are told
As the bumbles buzz – heading for home
Padre
Eternity’s Pages
The inchworm passes in a green flash upon eternity’s pages
Padre
Monostich and Paint Chips: inchworm and green flash
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