Cloud Play in White on Blue

Bald Head Island, North Carolina

July 23, 2014; revised August 15, 2014

A worthy vocation, this:

to wake up and watch

white cumulus

expand into cerulean;

to hear the whisper

of palm fronds

rasp secrets of the sea breeze;

to look out and see

white ibis

scour the shade of cedar trees;

to let go and glide

the summer mind

and sense the impassive watcher smile;

to trace the fate

of clouds in skies

and grasp the end of mortal lives –

we all resolve in blue.

"Watson Mill Skyscape," by David Noah,
Winterville, Georgia