Sweeps of sky blue
on silver canvas I paint
with streaks of crimson
mellowed by sunset hues.
Swirling cloud elephants,
springing tigers and dolphins,
across sunlit space
with freak figures swinging.
Rainbow-ribboned sky,
reflected in perfumed crystalline waters,
overflows in pleited golden dome
inset with many a celestial scene.
Moonlit pastures, starlit lakes,
unending rose valleys,
long-forgotten spiked depths of hills,
cloud shadows on the skyline.
All rising at the end of a trial :
weedy clumps, saggy hillocks,
yellow plains dotted by beaks and wing-whirls
and interlocking clusters of trees,
silhouetted against the sky.
