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With Twilight's Glow Nature Boldly Speaks

With Twilight's Glow Nature Boldly Speaks

Soft twilight glow just before dawn's new birth
When sun and earth show, art for all its worth.
O' tender emotions- send not thy cries!
For Nature holds more than blue, blue skies!

As light sends shadows burrowing so deep
Furry animals wake from midnight sleep.
Rabbits and squirrels hop out to and fro
Songbirds sing and splash colors just for show!

When night approaches with sun setting reds
Nature's night creatures, out pops sleepy heads.
Mother owl hoots loud to let man this know
She is wiser than both raven and crow.

Man wakes each day to Nature speaking clear.
Precious life is great, if souls would but hear!

Robert J. Lindley, 1- 04-2017

Sonnet

Syllables Per Line: 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10
Total # Syllables: 140
Total # Words: 110

Note- From memory of scenes at lake cabin decades ago!
Entire area burned decades later from massive forest fire!
Such blessed scenes forever gone... gone... gone.

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Alexis Y. Date: 1/4/2017 5:36:00 PM Hi Robert, This is such a beautiful Sonnet. I love nature writes. This was no exception. You painted a lovely picture with words. I enjoyed the scene. Well done. A without a doubt seven:-) Alexis Login to Reply Robert Lindley Date: 1/4/2017 5:57:00 PM Thank you Alexis.. Writing about Nature and my time spent in the deep woods is a blessing to me. When about to explode because of this modern world of concrete and broken dreams(!), I go there and it calms and heals my spirit!

Gary Bateman Date: 1/4/2017 4:21:00 PM Hello Robert!! Most Excellent in every respect. I always have marveled at the exquisite quality and the intellectual reach of your sonnets. (It's so sad to hear about the fire destroying everything. But your words have poignantly resurrected the wondrous nature scenes!!) The closing couplet is prescient and reflects the essential folly of Man when it comes to nature entire. Outstanding Work!! A "SEVEN" and in going in my "Book of FAVS"!! Cheers and Best, Gary Login to Reply Robert Lindley Date: 1/4/2017 5:52:00 PM Thank you my good friend! Tis a great honor for me ... As I know your talent, poetic insight and creativity is tops. THE FIRST STANZA CAME FROM A DREAM I HAD LAST NIGHT, about my life long ago. I woke up, wrote it down quickly , then this morning finished the poem.

Carolyn Fish Date: 1/4/2017 1:38:00 PM Love this. I'm always a fan of precise meter and rhyme, which you did very well here. I also love that this is a poem call from personal memory, as I just posted a similarly reminiscent poem of my childhood living on the beach, so the personal touch hits home for me. Well done! Login to Reply Robert Lindley Date: 1/4/2017 5:47:00 PM Thank you, I have just now found your poetry and its marvelous. I love its depth, measure, rhyme and creativity. Already favéd two of your poems mere moments after first read.