Nature’s Song of Light and Dark
Darkness drains between the branches,
spills across the forest floor,
hides in shade of crumbling logs
left from trees that went before.
Hides in shadowed nooks and crannies
hidden on the forest floor.
Brightly singing sunshine rises
pushes darkness farther back
hounding shadows into hiding
into deepest, darkest cracks,
as if day were in denial
that the night could e’re come back.
But soon enough the song will change
as sunshine slides away to sleep
and the shadows all unwind
to begin their upward sweep.
Cooling breath that sings the scales
from earth to sky in upward sweep.
Night to day and night again
the endless dance continues on,
and though our brains try to ignore it,
hearts beat out the ancient song.
Long to dance in light and shadow,
Long to beat to nature’s song.
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Linda Studley 
Some lovely alliteration in there, and I very much like the phrase: ‘Cooling breath that sings the scales’. It sings to *me*!
🙂
“Night to day and night again
the endless dance continues on”
What a wonderful piece! This is what I call poetry 🙂
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