The sky is a picture

A picture is the sky,

The lake is a mirror

A mirror is the lake;

An elm is a cumulus.

Cumulus congestus is the elm.

A daffodil in March is the onset

of Spring.

The Ash is in leaf before Spring sweeps

into Summer.

Aster Violetta unfolds her regality

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after the transition from August to

September.

Whilst Autumn,

Winter and most of

Spring are never without the marbled

gloves or intense bonnets of dancing

Cyclamen.

A sky is a picture,

The picture is a sky,

The lake is a mirror;

A mirror of the sky.

Between the deep emerald mounds

of a pair of hills,

Rises a Third more

distinct,

More blue.

A distant hill with more glaucous

topiary?

Or a cloud with more affinity to the

emerald crests than its sky-sailing

cousins?

Look at a silver lake and see

an overcast sky.

Gaze at an azure sea;

And spy a field of gull sailing

sapphire.

A sky is a picture.

The picture is a sky.