The sky is a picture
A picture is the sky,
The lake is a mirror
A mirror is the lake;
An elm is a cumulus.
Cumulus congestus is the elm.
A daffodil in March is the onset
of Spring.
The Ash is in leaf before Spring sweeps
into Summer.
Aster Violetta unfolds her regality
after the transition from August to
September.
Whilst Autumn,
Winter and most of
Spring are never without the marbled
gloves or intense bonnets of dancing
Cyclamen.
A sky is a picture,
The picture is a sky,
The lake is a mirror;
A mirror of the sky.
Between the deep emerald mounds
of a pair of hills,
Rises a Third more
distinct,
More blue.
A distant hill with more glaucous
topiary?
Or a cloud with more affinity to the
emerald crests than its sky-sailing
cousins?
Look at a silver lake and see
an overcast sky.
Gaze at an azure sea;
And spy a field of gull sailing
sapphire.
A sky is a picture.
The picture is a sky.