Night and Day

Unto Eternity

The summer sky was blue,
A brilliant blue, clean and warm,
I gazed with longing in my heart .
How wonderful to be a part
Of that blue,
To lose identity in peace.
The self so loved by worldly folk,
Completely vanished now in all.

Enchantment

At midnight all the world was stilled,
In silvery glow it lay,
With silent joy, my soul was thrilled
As never by the day.

A willful wind caressed the trees,
Their shadows gaily danced,
And as the leaves bewitched the breeze,
I stood as one entranced.

Enchanted night, thy spell has gone,
But always will remain,
Within my heart, although the dawn,
The darkened sky does stain.

Dawning

Across the pale-streaked morning skies,
Warm finger-rays of sunlight reach,
Then through the window panes they stream,
The slumb'rous tousled heads beseech.

"The dawn is here, lie not abed.
Come, greet the glorious morn,
Now cast aside the spell of sleep,.
For at the dawn, new dreams are born."

One figure lone, a silhouette,
Against the morning sky is traced,
A solemn, silent worshipper,
Whose love for God on beauty's based.

A chill and clear new morning breeze.
Awakes the soul to fairer dreams.
While soft upon the body plays,
The faint sweet warmth of sunlight beams.

Moonlight World

The moonlight has a strange effect
On things of ordinary life,
A shadow fairyland is mine,
Where yesterday a playground stood.
A hush'ed silence, solemn, still,
Where children rompled and played with glee.
A classic Roman ruins here,
Where light of day reveals a school.
I break the silence as I cross,
Once over I look back to see,
My moonlight dream has disappeared,
But I'll come back again some night.

Night Spell

What speaks the night,
To my benighted sight,
Celestial gems,
Their portents tell,
In purest rays,
Like lovers lays,
Set in basalt
Of heaven's vault,
They chain me well
In Circean spell,
So cries my soul,
As peace enfolds it whole.

Skies

I love the skies:
Night skies;
     Blue black, star-jetted;
     Murky, misty, the slow
     majestic roll of clouds.
Morning skies;
     Steel gray, tinted in the east,
      by the faintest flush;
        Cold, blue-gray,
       hugging the earth. 
Day skies;
       Wispy clouds, brilliance 
        of blue porcelain.
        Cloudy, sunlit stairway 
        to the clouds,
        Clouds, changing from
         tattle-tale gray to 
         translucent pink.
Evening clouds:
        Pastel rainbow in the west,
         slow shadows in the east.