Christmas Pleasures…
Enjoy! Each day’s life-treasures
Dare experience each
adventure-event God’s goodness daily offered
Dawn-dew, sunshine-cheer, thunderstorm,
snowdrift-sculpt coiffured
“Magic” dances, verifying
existence in one first flutter-flake
Beautiful as an emerald sea’s
white-foam receding wake
Blanket-comfort pristine cover on
created nearly-perfect world
Fantasy-delight imagination-fires
every heart-young boy and girl
Stark surreal-subtle silver-shadows
blend in dark-light mirage play
Sky peach-blush-hue hints
portending enchanted fresh-fluff day
Chase dodging frozen-flakes upon
warm tongue to tingle-cold
Crackle-fire, chocolate-warm,
respite-offer---dare challenge-bold
Night-time, sweet love tight-hold
before toasty-golden solace-flame
Blizzard howls lamented-cold;
refuses any futile-effort to wild-tame
New Year calendar-itinerary
evolves natural into sweetheart’s time
Mid-winter anachronistic-thaw
teases spring promise-flavored mime
Ice skates clatter, sleds rocket
smooth, Christmas-delivered treasures, these
Valentine hearts, Ides of March,
St. Patrick’s leprechaun pleasures, please
Dawn seeks dusk extends
shadows-long in awesome greening sight
Yellow-bright dresses with
bunny-hops celebrate Easter-ham delight
Icy-freeze reluctant melts away;
sun rises warm; winter dissolved
Spring-time “reigns”! April
“showers”! Usher May “flowers”-evolved
Yellow morels pop, birds nest,
Red-ear sunfish initiate annual lake-spawn
I know a verdant grove; that
hidden cove; glimpse a doe, fresh-spotted fawn
Silent salute! Reverent memory!
Heart-tug band! Old Glory! Proud unfurled!
Honor all courageous
sacrificed-served; many times such redeemed our world
Diamond prepare, rake mound high,
chalk line straight; too late for momentum-stall
Red-seamed white-horsehide sails
in, bat-club cracks at umpire’s yell of-“Play ball!”
Kids frolic-swim in creek’s cool
hole; Robbins, Cardinals, Turtle Doves hatched
Wrens nest in porch-hanging
ferns; sore-muscled alfalfa workers rest, detached
(Part 2 of 2---tomorrow)
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