Edisto Love Song Poem by B. V. Dahlen

Silvered moss drips from boughs
embroidered with egrets,
and the palmetto framed pond
echoes the scene inverted and quivering.
Sparse hollies sport scarlet berries
while gator ripples skim the surface.
Alabaster birds delicately wade
on spindle legs, amid the fronds
and regal buds of purple iris, haloing the pool.
Whispers of an evening breeze
shiver the finespun moss,
while startled frogs
eluding a stealthy hunter,
speckle the silence with splashes.
Liliputian lizards, darting and
adapting to their place,
display a rosy crescent at their throats,
and copulating love bugs
fly blindly into trees and faces.
Inquisitive turtles
attracted by a waterside shadow,
amass with anticipation of a treat.
In this hushed haven
my ear and eye zoom to the fountain
geysering tipsy sparks
that capture sunlight in every drop.