Man and Nature
21st Century
There they stand as brilliant opals against the starless twilight,
Ever so dressed in vivid fashion,
Around them nature and the works of man show their beauty:
The sapphire heavens stare upon us,
The pines roar, as Dyrad invites
The whisk of the winds,
North, east, south, and west, each telling a story,
A story of lands and times long since past,
Upon wings now open,
The birds, great seraphs, do stride,
Glide, placid in oblivion!
The grandeur that is Nature Almighty,
Never does cease nor die,
Rather on lives the infinity existence.
The sea, cradle of life,
Shimmers resplendent and sepulchral,
For from its waters even death comes:
The waves crash against man's domain,
White foam upon the shore does form,
All beautiful, yet cadaverous too.
Aloft in yonder seas a vessel sails
To its certain doom:
The dark maelstrom thickens
As Poseidon thus commands,
The fury of Nature Almighty is at hand!
A crystal sky from blue to somber black,
As fire from the wonder plummets,
The sails burn,
Hull compromised; doom incorporates.
Down into the dark maelstrom they descend
While the bewildered sailor
To the heavens he shouts,
But no answer from neither graves of dead
Nor gloomier graves of living!
All this has the sea in store,
Yet far greater wonders
Than shrouds of death,
Eternal furor, might of ruin,
But under now the rising sun,
Perpetual beauty does glow.
The winds Zephyrus bear
Through reeds that in the breath
Now bend,
Share forever the fair sonnets
Of their ever-dwelling nymphs.
They look upon from their lilies,
The winds at work
In the dome above, the sky,
Fulfills its one desire
In the eye of the beholder:
Nature's grandiose canvas
Is painted in the whisk of
The whipping clouds,
The most grand celebration of life!
DayPoems Poem No. 1691
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1691.html">Man and Nature by Brian Okabayashi</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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