Hourglass

Time basks in the renaissance
Of a pulsing velvet air
Marigolds touch push the azure 
In crimson-gold blaze.

The day stretches before me...
I sit with my cup of tea
Under an aegean sombrero
Macaroon clouds flit.

The morning charms me like a
Living poem on wings of
Petalled blossoms sashaying
On gossamer breeze.

Songs cascade from tiny throats
Musicians of the ether
Warbling their euphoria
Aural nourishment..

The yellow ochre orb glows
Like a sunflower in a 
Lilac sky burning purple
A marmalade toast...

Twilight tiptoes in..
Preamble to dark's tremble
A night's belonging

And darkness comes swiftly
Unleashing silence of sleep
As winds tiptoe on fallen leaves
Shadows recede...

In the hush of night
I feel time's heartbeat
I break my hourglass
To find a rainbow.