Red Rocks

 Solar furnace now

burning bright

dancing across

azure skies,

ignite the rocks with

crimson gold

impinging upon the human mind

inherent wonder of passing time,

the power of existence and

the sustenance of the natural world

in naked sparcity

in luxuriant rhapsodies

in kaleidoscopes of color and form.

 

From eyes to brain,

the world entrained,

dangling before hungry eyes

waiting for redemption,

upon this earth

nestled in the cosmos

an itinerant jewel.

 

Red rocks hewn from

ebullient power of rushing water,

eddies of turbulent wind,

sentinels to

relentless upheavals of a restless planet

born from the fiery bosom of a

raucous star

our sun.