The limpid waters
frolicked in the evening light
and lapped at the foothills
edging the heavens
Where the horizon
hemmed the surface of the deep
as it turned to indigo
beneath a mountainous sky
A sky of impenetrable darkness
which brooded over the slumbering realm
As the seas assumed a metallic lustre
shimmering in emerald green
In the light of an ivory moon
dangling low in the midnight firmament
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: Willgard on Pixabay
The stars in the night sky
hold the obituaries
of myriad moments
Each epitaph
inscribed upon a diamond white speck
Etched aloft in the heavenly heights
‘gainst the velvet sheet
of a violet midnight
Harvested by the orb of day
and scattered across an infinite expanse
of powder blue
From dawn until the hour of dusk
Then writ in bands of lilac and salmon pink
at the setting of the sun
Testimonies a many
displayed across the celestial canvas
That captures tales of the spirits
who dwell but awhile
Amid the land of the living
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: jplenio on Pixabay
Silently fell the hour of night
upon the tranquil scene
Silent as dust
settling in a deserted castle
It came to rest amid a moonlit realm
immersed in the enigma
of a velvet darkness
Shrouding the land
with the veil of midnight
And a serene stillness abounded
As a million stars
of diamond white
glistered like jewels
Strewn across the indigo sheet
in the inkiness of a sublime nightfall
While the flawless surface
of a crystalline lake
Shimmered beneath the infinite opulence
gracing the celestial emptiness
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: Pixabay taken from Pexels
A chalk white moon
braved the steel grey
a’brooding in the far heavens
Where the eastern skies
await the nascent orb of night
It ascends the lofty walls
amid a turmoil of leaden clouds
Burgeoning at the foothills
gracing the vaulted ceiling
arched over the dominion
When eventide falls
While a ruthless tempest brews
high in an infinite firmament
And hovers merciless
above a hapless prey below
Until its hour of glory is come
to assail for a tide and a time
The land of the living
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: Prettysleepy on Pixabay
A light of ethereal pallor
spills across the waters
Its milk white evanescence
a transient brevity
of spectral nebulosity
Seeps through the opaque shroud
cast by an evening mist
Veiling the clifftops
Lofty walls
describing a semi circle
that reach the far shores of yon bay
Where waters softly lap
Beneath a midnight firmament
bejewelled by myriad stars
Lost in a violet infinity above
While the great orb of night
emerges from another reality
for to ascend above the ink black line
etched at the horizon
As the benthic deep exults
amid the dark dormition
Enfolding the realm awhile
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: TerriAnneAllen on Pixabay
Clouds of cotton white
Brush the lofty blue
They spread wisps of gauze across the vast expanse Gracing the heavenly canvas
For to whisper
Of an infinity upon infinity
Beyond this mortal scape
Far above the tranquil scene below
Pervading myriad patchwork fields
That carpet the land in hues of emerald green
Where endless hedgerows
Snake ‘tween the meadows
And lofty oak trees
Exult in a gentle breeze
That stirs their leafy boughs
While a gleaming river
Meanders amid the bucolic idyll
Gilded by a blazing sun of dazzling gold
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: Tunis Tuğ on Pexels
The early morning mist
cast a pale wash
over the scene entire
As the nascent dawn
stained the realm
in a lilac haze
It wafted over the waters
at play upon the tranquil lake
Which donned a raiment
of diaphanous lavender
That gleamed in the lambency
of a silent daybreak
While patchwork fields
sparkled with dew
Studding the land
with myriad diamond lights
Which caught the sublime glory
bestowed by the rising orb of day
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: Kyle Roxas on Pexels
A moon of pale cream
hangs upon the insubstantial walls
of an ethereal cosmos
Whose vast heavens coruscate
with light spattered across the skies
by myriad stars of diamond white
Piercing the impenetrable darkness abounding amid the celestial canopy
As it pervades the cool chambers
of an enigmatic midnight
Where evenfall mists
whisper in the infinite indigo
As they glide through the deserted expanse
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: flutie8211 on Pixabay
Light from the dawning of day
cast a wash of pale gold
Across the scene
Its rays of whitest hue
filtered through the mists
a’float in the early morn
Where shadows of night
lingered low over the realm awhile
Reluctant their leave for to bid
of this serene idyll
As they wafted ethereal
over the placid waters
pervading the lake a’shimmer in palest blue
Like spectres unearthly
from another dominion entire
Drinking from the cup of plenty
gracing this silent hour
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: olga-filo on Pixabay
The lofty clifftop
casts a solitary shadow
in the silence of the nightscape
A stark etching in ebony black
‘gainst the backdrop of a nocturnal indigo
It stands watch over the realm below
where whispering seas
lap at a deserted shoreline
With a chorus of songs
from mariners ancient and new
Echoing from a far horizon of inky black
to the golden sands
a’shimmer in soft moonlight
As ocean spume simmers
at the hem of the beach
When darkness spreads through a vaulted ceiling
gracing the celestial firmament
And a rustle of leaves
in notes of lachrymose lament
the songs of sorrow
from the vernal trees issued
Is heard a’blowing
upon the wings of a gentle breeze
Caressing a sublime evenfall
with a soothing lullaby
The stillness of midnight for to serenade awhile
~ d.a.simpson ~
Image: 12019 on Pixabay
Visionary Poems 