Living Jewels
Posted: July 13th, 2011, 6:16 pm
Glancing down I saw Brook Trout
Daces and newts in these pools
Darting about like living jewels
Iridescent in the bright morning sun
Flickering tongue and lidless eyes
Coiled about honeysuckle vines
Upon nectar drunk insects it dines
A very content leaf-green snake
Hiding, a four-eyed jumping spider
Trigger web line fly hunting zeal
Pouncing too far, a brook trout’s meal
The resting mayfly lives another day
There she lounged upon a flat rock
Long dark hair and enchanting eyes
Her mysterious smile she can mesmerize
Even an old backwoods bumpkin like me
Daces and newts in these pools
Darting about like living jewels
Iridescent in the bright morning sun
Flickering tongue and lidless eyes
Coiled about honeysuckle vines
Upon nectar drunk insects it dines
A very content leaf-green snake
Hiding, a four-eyed jumping spider
Trigger web line fly hunting zeal
Pouncing too far, a brook trout’s meal
The resting mayfly lives another day
There she lounged upon a flat rock
Long dark hair and enchanting eyes
Her mysterious smile she can mesmerize
Even an old backwoods bumpkin like me