Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

a shaft of sunlight
 sneaks past a blocking cloud:
  summer sunset.

bounded by city:
 look up to boundless sky,
  & the mind soars.

flowers dip
 under a bee’s weight, 
  but spring back.

frogs plop in water
 faster than my eye can see:
  a blur — kerplunk!

a mighty river 
 makes the mighty city
  dwarven by compare.

sun sets behind trees,
 hiding a city in woodland 
  silhouette.

this odd little shrub
 grows snails like seed pods:
  or so it seems.

from lush green hills,
 the city is painted
  in hazy blue-gray.

cool, idyllic day:
 summer rallies a last stand,
  before the Fall.

hay is baled, and
 the pasture is empty: 
  still, but for cloud drift.