A thin rain
Falls upon arid ground
Seemingly lifeless
Springs to life
A million tiny survivors
Sprouting and blossoming
Giving color to the melancholy
Vital for brief a time
Scorched by heat and sun
Withering, dying
Blowing to the four winds
Hibernating
“Til winters rains return
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Sun filled days await
As spring arrives in birds song
Dew replaces frost
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Winter doldrums live
As we watch through our windows
Awaiting first buds
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Flowers dormant fade
Below freezing for one week
A desert winter
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
By D. R. DiFrancesco
Touching heaven with finger-like peaks
Bathed in purple and black
Crags and fissures a sign of her violent past
Yet in these chiseled features there is peace
Calm in her desolation
Joy in her solitude
Rains come, seldom, brief and miniscule
Life giving none-the-less
Colors erupt skyward from cracks and crevasses
Green, yellow, orange, and purple
Clothing fit for a queen
Floral draped plains bow at her feet
Only the finest for such a star
Sierra Estrella her name
But the cape once so lovely abandons her
Leaving her naked, hard, and rough
No less beautiful in the raw
Standing tall, she resumes her watch
Desert, now void of an audience unfurls
Bowing blindly to her majesty
Hawks and buzzards her only court
Left to marvel at her magnificence
Her strength, her beauty, her wonder.
The Sierra Estrella Mountain range (estrella in spanish is “star”) is located southwest of Phoenix Arizona. My home looks over these mountains and in the years that I have lived here, I have never gotten tired of looking at them.
Dom DiFrancesco 