New Mexico is Unbelievably Beautiful This Time of Year

"Autumn in New Mexico"

Golden curtains shimmer down

to ground and grass

through high-arcing, brilliant double rainbows,

children of the rain

and setting sun

The air is tangible,

yellow, fragrant

Wind's luxurious fingers

stroke the trailing green tresses

of swaying desert willows

while orchestral cicadas

play their evening waltzes

on winged, electric instruments

And night draws down its starlit shades

on nature's forever unfinished symphony

"SPRING RETURN"

EARTH RELEASES

HER LONG-HELD BREATH,

EXHALES HERSELF,

REVEALS HER SOUL

IN LIVING, FLAWLESS RAINBOWS

FLOURISHING ON BRANCHES,

BURIED, GROWING UNDER ROCKS,

THRIVING IN NESTS AND FIELDS ?

PLAYING MELODIES WITH MY SENSES,

EARTH DISPLAYS HER SOUL

WITH NOISELESS SONG

"SUMMER RETURN"

THE SOUNDS OF SUMMER

STARTING UP

IN THE REVVING, HUMMING ENGINES

OF LAWNMOWERS THAWING OUT

FROM THE LONG WINTER?S FREEZE

THE VOICES OF CHILDREN

CARRIED ON THE EVENING DISTANCES,

REVELING IN

SUNLIGHT AFTER DINNER,

HOMEWORK LAID ASIDE FOR NOW

UNTIL LATE-NIGHT SUNSET BECKONS

THE INSISTENT BIRDS AND CRICKETS

WHO CHEER THE WARMING AIR

AS NIGHT?S COOL BREATH

LETS GO AND OFFERS DAY,

ONE STEP CLOSER

TO THE SOUNDS OF SUMMER

STARTING UP AGAIN

"TODAY"

TODAY IS A DAY

FILLED WITH BEAUTY

AND GRACE

THE WIND?S IN THE TREES,

IT CARESSES MY FACE

THE SKY IS AS CLEAR

AS A CRYSTAL BLUE OCEAN

THE EXQUISITE AIR

STIRS MY SOUL, MY EMOTIONS

I HEAR GOD

IN THE SINGING

OF NEST-BUILDING BIRDS

ON A DAY LIKE TODAY,

AIN?T NUTHIN? DISTURBS

THE PEACE IN MY HEART,

THE JOY IN MIND

THEY SHINE

THROUGH THE DARK,

MAKE ME FEEL

LESS APART

FROM MY FAMILY,

MANKIND,

AND FROM ALL THINGS

DIVINE

"SKY PAINTING"

I?M WATCHING SHAPE-SHIFTERS

WAY UP HIGH,

STRANGE LOVELY PAINTINGS

MADE BY SKY

MISTY POPULATIONS FLOATING,

ALWAYS CHANGING, SOMETIMES EMOTING

RAINING TEARS FOR OUR PARCHED LAND,

TO BRING NEW LIFE TO BARE, DRY SAND

THEY COME AND GO WITHIN THE SKIES,

REFLECT THEIR MAGIC IN MY EYES,

AND AS THEY GO, NEW CLOUDS ARISE

"A GATHERING OF TUMBLEWEEDS"

A GATHERING OF TUMBLEWEEDS

HESITATED, TREMBLING ASIDE THE HIGHWAY?S EDGE

UNTIL AN ODD,

HOT-BREATHED LITTLE WIND SCAMPERED BY

AND SENT THESE AIRY, BOUNCING SKELETONS

OF A DRY AND BLUE NEW MEXICO

SOMERSAULTING, RACING

THROUGH THE DUSTY ROADS AND FIELDS

OF DESERT WINTERTIME

"MOON MAJESTY"

THE MOON IS BASKING

IN ITS OWN REFLECTED LIGHT,

AND FLOATS,

A MAJESTIC, SHINING PRESENCE

ABOVE VOCAL, LIVING CLOUDS

OF EVENING?S MIGRANT BIRDS

AND SULTRY TWILIGHT AIR

INFUSED WITH PINK AND ORANGE HUES

OF EARLY AUTUMN SUNSET

AND ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

"AUTUMN RETURN"

IN A BEAUTIFUL RAIN, THE TREES

RETURN THEIR SHARE OF BLUE

INTO THE AUTUMN AIR,

BACK TO THE SKY,

TO REVEAL THE GOLD AND YELLOW SUNSHINE

HIDDEN IN THEIR LEAVES

THE RIVERS RISE

IN A BEAUTIFUL RAIN, I

FLOAT UPON THE PULSING WINDS

MY LIQUID WINGS

SHINE,

IRIDESCENCE REFLECTED

TO THE STARS

AS BRANCHES BARE

THEIR SOULS TO APPROACHING WINTER

& ALL THE RIVERS

RISE

"WIND DANCERS"

TREES DANCE

TO THE RHYTHM OF THE WIND,

TOSSING THEIR MYRIAD ARMS

IN EXUBERANT ABANDON

AS THEY SWAY AND BEND

IN ROOTED FASCINATION

THE AIR IS FILLED

WITH THE MUSIC OF THEIR LEAVES

"A PIECE OF GOD"

GOD?S HAND

IS MADE OF WIND

WHICH

BRUSHES BACK THE HAIR

OF SPRINGTIME?S THRIVING TREES

AND GRASS

AND TREMBLING DANDELIONS

AND NUDGES OPEN

YOUNG TWILIGHT?S UNLOCKED DOORS

(JUST STOPPING IN TO SAY ?HELLO!?)

THEN PULLS THEM

FIRMLY, GENTLY SHUT,

LEAVING A PEACE OF GOD BEHIND

"Silent Life"

Silent snow

Silent day

Faery mistrals

fall away

from deep within the sky

Silent hush

Silent sound

Weightless crystals

homeward bound

as winter's songbirds sigh

Silent trees

Silent earth

Floating petals

seeds of birth

our world no longer dry

(All (c) Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson

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