Slumbering seas

Slumbering seas

Drift deeply through lazy days

As veranda skies

Fade, deeply down

Into the distance

Where the eye

Is yet to linger

Beyond the passing

Of a glance

Where is the jeopardy

In a tableaux such as this

When summer

Skims a first kiss

Across pristine water

It skips in time to the crackle

Of a Magpie

Protecting its nest

From a postman

Still wrapped up for winter

Picture postcard delivery

Find me a moment

To remember

How different it can be

On the downside

Of disaster

When the wind blows

Everything changes

It is in the nature

Of beauty

To turn the other cheek

It is a face

Of two sides

Presenting

A different outlook

It is by good grace

A benign countenance

Is shining down

Even when in a slough

Of pitiful thought

There can be safety

From harm,

Does it help

To know how lucky

Chance has made us