Cuttlebone and Cobwebs

Cobwebs and Cuttlebone

Silver boats upon shrubbery seas

invisible threads traversing canopies

billowing between grass blades to dry

shimmering with water diamonds dazzling the new woke eye.

Talismans of Autumn proclaiming

her conception in awakened flaming

and in her shivered crisp-en dawning

vestiges of summer settle in comfortable yawning.

Where stone to pebble is sand hewn

along tumbled tide-lines flotsam festooned

cushion bones bleached by sun and storms

become punctuation amongst sombre colour forms

Sheltered, half hidden, by shifting sands

or curiosities in investigative hands

pennants proclaiming ocean's mystery

tombstones to the lost of a multi-peopled sea

Calcium clusters passing on their store

to feathered clans rummaging the salty shore

likewise the cobb's web gathers it's works worth

a store to fill spider's winter girth

So completing the circle of life and season

participating, as their nature, in nature's cohesion

birth to death, death to birth

all and everything essential to the earth