My thanks to editor Jim Lewis for including two poems in the December issue of Verse-Virtual. The poems are a response to a seasonal request to poets to write a poem about what we're thankful for... Big question; so many, many answers.
Here's my poem --below the photo -- on gratitude for the beauty of the natural world.
Twilight in Paradise
We’ve been here before
Not ‘here’ in the literal sense,
but such an evening path to Perfection
If you live on Perfection Road,
you know the signs.
The sorcery of twilight when an autumn afternoon
nuzzles August balm
and then the light fades, so soon this time of year
And your street, your road,
each house after perfect house,
silence unbroken, no traffic finding this way,
nor wandering through, confused,
the driver’s nose in a map…
No motorcycles, power tools, radios
nothing at all to spoil a perfect silence,
smear with words
the perfect end of a perfect day.
And not one perfect person,
old, young or in between
stepping out of doors
to watch the sun set over Hillside Pond
or see the full moon rise above
Mount Blue,
the perfect place from which
to watch the seething traffic back up on the way
to pop-idol stadium
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