Nature's Gifts

Their incontestably sublime trills
are the last to be heard when
dusk introduces the stillness of
nightfall, the first to sing of
their delight when dawn breaks
the dark curtain of night, their
sweet sound permeating the
atmosphere, the sight of their
brilliant flight mimicking a
counter-world where one views
flowers of surpassing beauty
in flight. The cardinals grace
the landscape with their
evanescent presence, truly
poetry in sound and motion.
The early morning pair in the 
tandem of mating in preparation
for spring nesting, decorate the
atmosphere in a palette of
brilliant red hues, their notes
of transcendent loveliness
gracing the airwaves with sound
as exquisite as the music of the
spheres in the very firmament.