Blue Skies

shades of blue dominate
whites intermingle
grays merge silently
windless in whispers

float nonchalantly by
as reds and pinks touch
the tops of bushes whose
roots are firmly planted
in the decades old soil
separating cities from
counties and its farmlands
in need of blue skies
and the rains that are
associated with an end
to summer and the
beginning of harvest in
the cool dawns of fall.

17 August 2020