Shades of This and That

sun on the hill a hayfield on an uncle’s farm my childhood, captured gold reflections on a placid lake trees and greenery rise ripple a silver face later a song in the air the summer of love sgt pepper, a new refrain an old brick hall north of central campus where as a student I find my life the campanile late at night stilled oversees a place where paths cross young lovers find their dreams a winding road in the countryside a side trip to nowhere solitude where time unwinds in depths of a forest I find myself a rustling of leaves nature speaks to me a hummingbird at arm’s length we gaze at each other until the wind takes it away a fellow writer and I at her farm in company of horses she keeps life shared in poetry and verse lyrics of a love song shared a waitress refills my drink in reflections of other times and places