a peaceful retreat

 

 

 

The sun glows bright in the cloudless sky

The ambience is peaceful like the heavens above

Birds sing in choruses, the voice of angels

Protecting the throne of fire.

The sky is a pale almost translucent blue

And its hems are tinged with golden rays

My eyes squint at the brightness that shines

This orb as it emanates delight

 

Summer is finally here even in late spring

Global warming has left a positive mark

Like letters on the English landscape

How happy I am to be bathed by the out-come of a mistake.

The trees bud their leaves early this year

And each branch looks like bronchioles with green flesh

The silver birch which stands firm in the green

Is liberated from winter’s death

 

Miss Annie below glows in the heat as she treats her garden

And pearl beads run into her eyes from her brow.

The weeds all rooted, filled plastic bags 

The earth beneath is seen once more.

 

She stops to rest and drinks in the sun

Colouring her pale Anglo Saxon skin

The doorbell rings and her daughter returns

With her grandchild she is joyful once again

 

She swaps her rake for her grandchild’s love

And brings her out into the light

Pretty in pink and striped like a page

God has written his love in her eyes

Her pettitness is to be adored

 

Mia mixed raced Cameron and British decent

Her hair covered in a floral bonnet bouquet

The sun loves her and everything she is

Is the master’s handy work in simple innocence

 

Too soon she is gone into the shade of the house

The grace in her eyes etched in my memory reminding me of

My nephews loving eyes when he was that young

The father tends to this glorious scene

Through the power of the sun,

Like that memory it does not fade.

 

 

 

Harmony envelopes this space

Like the hand of God surrounds his children

The voice of nature’s call

Is heard in the singing of birds in the trees

And children laughing as they play in the pocket park

The day is warm and I feel close to my fellows

The gentle heat of the sun strokes my face

With a satisfied grin I sip my cold coffee and write once again.