Sun glistening on the water Dazzling, dancing, diamonds Sparkling in the early evening light Jewels courtesy of nature’s beauty Enchanting, exquisite, ethereal Gifted as day turns into night
Clouds transforming to Indigo blue As daylight is washed from the sky Transforming, stunning in simplicity A slice of moon illuminating the way Stars signaling the end of the day Guilty only in their complicity
The sky freckled with tangerine clouds The sun’s last breath of the day The water glittered with diamonds and shadows grew long as the evening turned grey Through the looking glass of twilight astral forms came into view and under the stars we lay
Laura Boomsbury is hosting D'Verse Poetics tonight She has asked us to choose an example of prose by Laurie Lee and expand on it using “I had never been so close to grass before. It towered above me and all around me, each blade tattooed with tiger-skins of sunlight. It was knife-edge, dark and a wicked green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered, and leapt through the air like monkeys” (Cider with Rosie)
