April is National Poetry Month. I’m celebrating with Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Today’s prompt is perfect for Earth Day–nature.
Spring
Clouds darken over fields of wildflowers
ranges of snow-topped bluebonnet peaks
fiery sprawling lantana
delicate pink cups of evening primrose
yellow ringed firewheels
sunny splashes of coreopsis
prickly purple thistle puffs
Petals shimmer in the breeze
shadows swallow the sun
then a sudden drenching
the sky an overturned bucket
ceasing as quickly as begun
Later, clusters of white stars
rain lilies
reaching for the night sky
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