Simply Sweet~ the Light

Pottering around the garden, I came upon it slow.

 The play of light and shadow on ruffle-edged rhubarb
beckoned me to stop.. and notice it.

Commissioned by the vein-threaded beauty,
I then set out to see what other contrasts I could find.

Bamboo, under the brown pergola, stretched up it's lanky branches

and strained to catch the last of the day's sunkisses on it's lime-green face

while the dappled little lemon tree all gold and warm,

 soaked in the bright intensity of the day.

Indoors, the pale-pitted wooden duck carved by firstborn son,

sat atop black scales with it's back braced before the simmering window-glass.

And I prepared to resume my tasks with thoughts set on the evening meal to come,

but stood transfixed and still instead..while interposing shadows cut the scene

For suddenly appearing (like a resurrected One)
all across my kitchen dressed in white-
 ran the Light!

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I'm joining Kathy for her delightful Home and Garden Thursdays
and Tracie at Fishtail Cottage for her cottage garden party
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