Evening flew upon cinnabar wings

Earth’s emissary, the hope of kings

Fire of suns, the dawn of dews nest

Arising horizon in an eagle’s quest

Towering flames, pheasant feathers

Carrying palms, a heart’s endeavors

Golden light of all immortal desiring

Great beauty of its divine conspiring

Aromatic breath of a God’s presence

Its gifts of spices, herbs, frankincense

Tree of Life into its winter of all being

Gathering the silver feathered fleeing

Into the fanned magistrate of all time

Jeweled Phoenix, fire in wind's chime

Soaring over mountains, into the light

Ashes to ashes, resurrected into flight

A cosmic creature of an ancient land

Teaching all continents to understand

“Fire is born of fire, light born of light

All colors of the sun gathered in sight

Stars will shine on ages, fires on a sea

Eyes are but the twinkle of an eternity

It is not what you see, but what bears

Be of compassion, a world that cares”

Kathy Paysen 2012

"Rainbows in the Rainforest Collection"
February 26, 2009, Internet Poetry, EveryAuthor.com
Educational poetry for the world we live in