Listen to the Sunset

I watched the deer
watching me in the field

we were watching each other

and after a while

the mother deer said to me

"Watch the sky

listen to the sunset"
and they quit watching me

and turned their backs to me

and so I watched the sky and

I listened

Hearing nothing
I climbed up the hillside

to watch the sky a little longer

and I listened a little more closely

Soon, the sky turned 
from blue to yellow

to amber to gold

and then ever-darkening

shades of bronze

which finally gave over

to a deep, soft violet

I'm not sure if I ever heard
anything

and maybe that was the point

Spring's A-Coming

Although the snow 

was piling high

upon her branches and her limbs

in her roots, she knew

"Spring's a-coming."

The Hill Rose Up

The hill rose up above me

a tidal wave of trees

and came crashing down

an avalanche of leaves

I was nearly drownded

I could scarcely breathe

it left me deeply humbled

it brought me to my knees

So, clinging to a great oak

I waited for relief

I prayed I might reach the crest

Lord, help my unbelief