Live Each Day
Live dawn’s new
day as though it be your last
One dusk shall
tell that any future time has past
Bring Christmas
Spirit to new discovered morn
Event proclaim
awaits fresh great adventure-born
Sleigh ride
delight glisten diamond crystal
“Giddy-up!” Bay
Stormy prancing proud
Bright New Year
sun promises faux warmth
Pull afghan
tight, sing “Jingle-bell” fine tune
Chocolate hot assures
arrival home soon
Arise at dawn,
hairy prognosticator beast
Fear not just
thou own dark shadow cast
Dare six week
retreat to warm winter borrow?
Care I what
might be your cold prognostication?
Find warm
comfort love in Valentine celebration
Subside cold
wild wind, usher in mild lamb
String-kite
climb through fluffy white clouds
The Ides this
bluster day portend Caesar’s demise
St. Patrick’s
Day harbinger Vernal Equinox spring
Late season
storm remind us remember Lion King
Warm showers
gather like Emerald Isle weather
Meadows greening
sweeten Bessie’s milk-onion
Reticent buds
explode in myriad rainbow palette
Forest-leaf
floor release Morel mushroom yellow
Incessant
Spring-fever strikes un-ambitious fellow
Must work harder
to secure that needed promotion
Threatening
damper saved by bright flower blossom
Red Ear are
spawning, I know oasecret lake pool
Good intentions
pure for meaning all I should do
Too beautiful a
day to pass up firing the bar-b-que
Sipping lemonade
cool under Maple shade dappled
Alfalfa bales
waiting in the field keep beckoning
Oiled leather
mitt and caught a whiff of summer
Baseball
harkens, here comes Bobby and young Jim
Need one more to
play, better call our trusty boy Slim
Iced down
watermelon in Mom’s borrowed old wash tub
Fried chicken
picnic, playing in hot afternoon fun games
A refreshing
clan together swim in the creek before sunset
In “America, the
Beautiful!” dusk flees yon coming night
Red-fire painted
sky echoes bombs bursting in big delight
A hot time in
the old town every day and night
Humidity so
thick the preacher prayed for gills
Dog days of
Summer not fit for man nor beast
Children immune
to the whims of Nature-kin
I cry still when
those darn school times begin
Soft
cotton-white puffs traverse cerulean abyss
Comes Autumnal
equal split of dark and light
Hunter’s blood
stirs with early teal migration
Longed for Fall
hint promised in cool night air
Tethered child
spirit freed as adventure-dreams flair
Bare skeleton
limbs claw at alabaster awe full moon
Colored fallen
leaves rustle, play tag before the wind
Bounty harvest
safely in the barn, pantry larder full
Night time chill
at bay by firewood warmed stove
Family safely
sound in farm house treasure trove
Daddy and I
chase cottontails to howling chorus beagle pets
Dry logs chopped
then split neat piled by the back porch door
Soon challenge
keen wiles of Mr. Whitetail eight point buck
Thanksgiving
reverence prays the evil world has ceased
Love shared
among these guests to celebrate a turkey feast
Deliberated decisions
hope for that desired most special gift
Bright gold
paper wrapped, secured with pretty ribbon red
Festive color
decorations adorn center-stage fresh-cut tree
Blessings more
again this day and each one since the last
Each day has
been Christmas, Lord, in the year just past
Amen!
