A hot day’s sunset

sweet ducklings upon the grass
playing sweetly to the last
as the sun sets down beyond the lake,
a hot day’s thirst is finally slaked.

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Different Fruit

a lovely sunset

perhaps a ripe peach
or orange
or mandarin
or pomelo

and to some of us
not fruit at all

Majestic Farewell

The sun departs
in royal raiment:
gold and blue

Leaving us
all poorer
for his absence

Sunset Brew

Orange pekoe tea
Sandpipers flying in vees
Against the sunset

Flirtation

cavorting on a fragmented
mirror of rainwater

a tangerine paramour yet glides adroitly
receding into the hinterland
a swirl of azure cape –

to his daily heartbreaks
he bids “adieu”

Paragliding

Curved sail
Punctuates sky
Hanging sunset

Desert Sunset

Thin cacti implore
An orange sky retreating
Wintry night exhales

Fire In the Sky

From his throne of molten gold
The twilight dragon rouses
To breathe white vapor.
Upon the countenance of conquerors
He gifts great ambition and grand dreams.

Athena

O’er the hill he rides his steed
To memory’s eternity
Years past the deed
The children still whisper of his face
The lance, the chariot, the fearsome mace
The mysterious knight
Against the fading light
The dragons slayed
And the grateful maids
Send shivers of pleasure when again told
Those bygone chivalric tales of old
Yet sunset spells a specious cast
It was her, not his name, that should last.

Suburban Sunset

A row of houses falling into dusk
With the sunlight slanting
Along a paved asphalt road
Is punctuated by a mourning dove’s cry
Somewhere behind the hedges