Looking out on the world I see..................
Naked trees, shivering in the breeze.
Logged hills with crewcut tops.
A graveyard of logs awaiting their reincarnation.

Brown, furry Cat tails, playing hide and seek,
in the breeze among their long, leafy foliage.
Dog Woods, wagging their white, flowered limbs.
Birds serenading the rising of the sun as they,
cheerfully greet a new dawn.

The rugged face of a cliff, softened by,
delicate wild flowers carressing it’s stony wrinkles.
Meandering roads, like black winding ribbons,
equally divided with yellow stitching, neatly edged in white.

Long rows of fencing like the front line of a battle field,
weary of it’s endless line of defense.
Crowds of ferns waving at each passerby.
Sparse trees, tenaciously clinging,
like mountain goats, to the side of a rocky cliff.

Happy children building castles in the sand, unmindful
that the castles will soon be buried in a watery grave.
Belligerent waves slapping the rocks along the shore.
Abandoned seashells scurrying along the sand,
evidence of the hermit crab’s new residence.

Angry storms, lashing out in their fury,
stabbing the sky with bright, flashing, jagged,
bolts of lightening, and belching out deafening,
and frightening, rolling claps of thunder , then,
beating natures children unmercifully,
with it's howling winds and torrents of rain.

The sun peeking cautiously through the clouds,
upon a battered, rain soaked earth after the storm has abated.
It's bright rays paint a brilliant rainbow that arches,
across the sky, God's promise after the flood.

Fleecy, white clouds forming a collage of pictures.
Colorful sunbeams staging a dance in the prisms of a chrystal.

.........all nature portraying an example of the various,
personalities, characters, dreams and feelings present in us.

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