Sparklers in the grass,
millions of droplets
twinkling like night stars
Branches hung with bangles,
a hundred prisms in every tree
winking colors of the rainbow
Shiny puddles for dogs and doves
to drink, to splash, to see
mirrored the world above them
Everything washed clean,
polished bright and new again,
fresh and growing fire-green
read at Nashua, N.H. Christian Writers’ Group Conference, May, 2004, and at
a National Poetry Month (April) coffeehour at Jamaica, VT by Poet Charles Waugaman
first published in Penned From The Heart Devotional
also published in FLOOR OF THE SKY Chapbook
©2002 Bonnie Manion