Wishing you all health, happiness, peace and better in 2022. Here is a poem I wrote many moons ago. I would, of course, LOVE to hear how it touches you. The photo is available in my ETSY store.
THE OPERA
BY, Marisa Salisbury
The crickets chirp, raising to soprano crescendo
Enter the birds in harmonious song
Their beating wings and fluttering feathers
Like soft percussion of the timpani
The frogs croaking in baritone splendor
As a soft
Breeze
Whistles in through reeds and branches
Her soft song of love,
Of patience
To awaken the tenor
Like a bear rising from his winter slumber
He raises his arms
Turns to the audience of a redwood forest
And bellows his notes
Then…
Silence
Slowly, all turn to face the east
As the sun BURSTS through the sky like a crashing symbol
And all creation sings…
IT HAS BEGUN…IT IS DAY!…IT IS A GLORIOUS NEW DAY!
