Showing posts with label shadow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shadow. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Maple Sunset

Ah, the quiet, the long views, the setting sun.  We arrived in time to see the sunset and have the cooler night breezes beginning.  I never tire of Aroostook County.  So here's an Etheree for last night...remember an Etheree is 1 to 10 syllables increasing for each line.


Tree
Shadow
As sun sets
Flowing growing
Cool shady fingers
Stretching, reaching warm ground
The sun probes leafy branches
Piercing through to the dark green side
One last bright spot before sun’s rays slip
Below to grace someone’s morning coffee

Zero

Each day (except Sundays) in April, I'm writing poems with some obscure words starting with the letter of the day, and then doing a sm...