Orange You Glad It's Friday, #86 - Northern California Sky - April 18, 2014

I wish I was at my old home just off the Pacific Ocean for this sunset but it is 
dazzling even here a hundred miles north in West Sacramento with no ocean
in the neighborhood.  These displays of nature are a reward and a reminder
that, indeed, there are some splendid gifts in this world that don't cost a thing.

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Music in Nature

Joanne Olivieri, my long time mentor and fellow poet, recently had a contest, requesting entries on the topic of music in nature.  She announced the winners yesterday on her blog and I am honored to have been a runner up.  Glynis Smy of Author Blog won with her poem, "Symphony of Life."  The five honorable mentions were:

Secondary Roads

The Writing Nag

Secret Forest

The Everyday Adventurer

Don't Know Much About Photography

Congratulations to everyone and thanks to Jo for hosting this contest.  Here is my poem: 

Music In Nature

Nature abounds

In all sorts of sounds,

That seem musical to my ears –

 

Gentle soft murmurs,

Violent crashing crescendos,

With electricity so hot that it sears.

 

The ripple of wheat,

in a soft summer breeze,

Or the ping of hail,

As rain starts to freeze.

 

The roar of a waterfall,

The droning of bees,

The cawing of crows, 

Fluttering leaves in the trees.

 

The booming of thunder,

Waves caressing the shore, 

They all create a symphony,

Need I say even more?

Carmen Henesy

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