I'll Paint You a Poem!

My beloved Wickanninish

With these keys, I will paint you

a honeydew melon patch at the far side of summer,

draped in dew-kissed webs, the spidery artist 

long-gone on its trembling legs.

I will sketch for you a patch of shy fiddlehead ferns,

unfurling delicately, blushing green, 

to the tender song of the brook.

I will paint you a sky-high sun over the mountains,

so you may clearly see the path of the waterfall down its slopes,

and I will colour in perfect puffy storybook clouds,

birds of many colours,

a rock covered with growling, barking sea lions,

and a gray whale, leaping, far out at sea.

if you are still not sated, wait one instant more,

and I will, with a flourish,
create for you a star-flung sky

just before midnight, frost crackling underfoot,

scent of wood-smoke on the almost-winter air,

and I will pencil in the faint sleepy cry 

of an owl going into its burrow

just before dawn.

Sunrise over Tofino Inlet

For Victoria's cool prompt at dVerse: paint me a poem! She asks us to accompany it with whatever artistic medium we use to illustrate our poems. I am only able to draw funny pictures for the little ones, so my "medium", as such, is photography. But truly, it is nature who does all the work.