Petals Under Moonlight
Petals under moonlight
on a night when the month of May
is blooming:
owls play their piccolos
upon the branches,
crickets, their castanets
upon the watery grass —
Rejoice
in the muted colors of the petals,
foliage,
sepals,
beneath the cloak of temporal
greyness —
When daylight alights,
the greening of things
innumerable will blaze
across the fields of this fertile
continent,
drenched in the early rain,
warmed by the beams of the morning
sunlight.
D. G. Vachal © 2013, 2025
Photo Credit: Richard Thripp
lilies, sparrows and grass 
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