Gayle M. Sunshine O Maize Water Nora Shoshone Doherty Winchester, story song Glen A, Sweeney + Poems

A blue jay's feathered back holds spots of white clouds
And soft, glistening blue.
Upon its wings is painted days of sapphires
And snowy flurries, too.
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A full cookie cutter moon is sparkling
Like a pearl brooch dripping with diamonds.
Bright stars are sprinkled across the night sky.
I made a wish upon a star on high.
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Zinnias USA, in A Garden to Scottie Elkins my friend......... In a valient sunrise front yard
In a Rye garden
On an OceaN road
Where heavenly Zinnias shine,
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Between the tall, darkened evergreen trees
Some twinkling stars shined
In the night brightly..
The black sky is a melody
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I remember
A bright LIPSTICK RED tulip and more
Grew in the backyard... and a maple.
The maple tree is still there growing
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Beyond a bird on the wire
Is a sky of light blue triumphing sapphire.
I looked up at the sapphire and the bird
Thinking if I could only sing a song of sunshiny words.
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A patch of feathered cloud white
is glazed inside the center
Of the small, round blue handmade bowl -
Kiln fired, down from around the Tennessee smokey mountaintops.
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How lucky I was alone earlier at a sunny hour
To have gazed upon a splendid blue sky and tulip flowers!
The shining blooms had opened peacefully like a prayer book.
With purely painted petals the waking world - so wondrous, looked.
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A sunny cardinal in the tall, snowy evergreen tree
Wore a shining coat the shade of red berries so joyfully.
While I looked dreamily outdoors towards the small, white,
Wintry woods
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A big lemony butterfly floated up with a sunny breeze
And drifted amoung the cool green leaves of the old, black cherry trees.
It was seen clearly dancing in the air and then not found at all,
Cloaked in cloisonne' as if it was going to an evening ball.
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