Been aweful lazy in all the summer heat about posting stuff to this board.  It's high time I got one hear.

 

The Contest

 

Washed clean by night's tears

Green jewels shimmered

On each tree branch

Dancing diamonds

On the water blue

Floated down the creek

 

Mother Nature's breath

Kept some of the winged demons

From his sun kissed face

As shielded eyes

Struggled to follow

A gossamer thread

 

A silver torpedo

Erupted from the dark depths

Gone deep in an eye blink

The impossibly light tether

Stretched to singing

Followed the retreat

 

Hasty scrambling

Brought him to pools edge

To see another aerial display

But brawn and will

Soon proved inadequate

To finesse, muscle and machine

 

bigguy