Day 27 – American sonnet

Beauty beholden

What beauty has my heart beholden today?

Contoured horizons of fir rich hills,

Baby-green flora in budding Spring growth

and the giggles of families out in sun-kissed April.

The beauty of frescos on medieval church walls,

The fragrance of hawthorn and freshly mown grass,

The joy of reunion in the eyes of an old friend

and the panoramic view of an orange sun sinking through a peach-melba sky.

The beauty of meeting a stranger’s selfless heart

and the wonder of understanding when trust fills its part.

And what beauty beheld my eyes at the close of this glorious day?

A platter of tasty delicacies to welcome this hungry traveler.

The view

Day 4 NaPoWriMo – Strange things

Day 4

Our (optional) prompt for the day challenges you to write a poem in which you take your title or some language/ideas from The Strangest Things in the World

I had a look at some weird and wonderful phenomena in this awesome world (courtesy of Google) and composed this little rhyme.

Strangest Things

Who doesn’t love an orchid

the blooms so long they stay.

But come and look what this one did –

It upped and walked away!

orchid-mimicking insect

Or have you seen the spiders

mimicking as ants?

They look sweet to outsiders,

but don’t get them in your pants!

ant-mimicking spider

And if you go down under,

there’s a plant in dessert streets,

where insects tricked as plunder,

as it stinks of rotting meat.

The Carrion plant

The more we look at creation,

scientists have found,

that what’s known is but a fraction

of the spectacular around.