Evening Harmony Poem by Diana van den Berg

Evening Harmony



Vibrating crickets pierce the softening dusk;
trees dark’ their waving boughs
and stand like sentinels ‘gainst cooling sky;
the lazy music of sleepy birds
hangs in the branches of their roosting trees,

and on the water, white flowers of egrets
bloom on the naked remnants of a broken branch.

The deep blue blanket softly mothers her weary child
and gently draws her to her quiet breast.

November 1963

Sunday, June 14, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: miscellaneous
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Written when I was 18.
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Diana van den Berg

Diana van den Berg

Durban, South Africa
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