Sunset Over Lake Michigan

I took this photo near the boardwalk along the Grand River that flows into Lake Michigan.  In the distance on the left is the lighthouse and beacon at the end of the pier.  We get lovely sunsets in Grand Haven, MI.

The Sun

              The Sun

Winking as it walks, sun shafts sparkle

fish fins below.

Sun sings to wind a low melody—

billions of leaves tremble--fall.

At sundown all bathed in rose gold

And we exalt in the afterglow.



Here I am reading poems at Schuler Booka and Music

Sun Down on Lake Michigan

Sun Down

 

The sun is blazing down now like a molten gold dubloon.  The lake is calm and wears gold pounded thin as tissue—like to gold embedded in blue Venetian glass tiles—the same remarkable blue.  What luxury to look out upon the golden lake and to see the rose gold sun and a smudge of Paynes gray along the horizon.  The sun hangs above the pier like a toy balloon slowly losing helium—sinking lower—lower then slips away.

 

                            __Barbara Spring

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