Birth of Earth

warm steaming-white rain on auburn sand
a blue-white wind jostles earth with firm yet gentle hand
an ear-splitting ardor as earth stretches her limbs
and blazes smoke-orange red; a new face as twilight dims

a pact dimly remembered, a naked earth shivers
a robe of fresh colour her first travail delivers
the oceans, aware on this glowing new dawn
the tempest abates; a golden template is drawn

golden shadows of mystery-bound hue
forest's form does the raucous elemental imbue
stately, patient, dark emerald reverberating cathedral's halls
...discerned, a future unfurling resounding from violet-pink canyon walls

the laden green sky a silvery hint drops
of awareness enhanced; a new voice echoes amongst the tree tops
a babe 'neath the woods, a prodigy of past's promise keeps
an ecstatic new mother sings softly whilst her new child sleeps

-mark