Monday, August 18, 2025

The Echoes of Darkness

 As the night falls, I can hear the Morning Doves

Giving off the last notes of their song.

Off in the distance, I hear the Coyote

Howling its lonely cry.

The cattle bellowing as the night skies fall

Into the echoes of darkness.

Crickets giving away their hiding places

With the quite chirps.

The mellow breeze of the wind

As it whistles through the treetops.

The sun finally sets behind the clouds of grey

Drifting off below the horizon

Bringing up its beautiful colors of red, oranges and off set yellows.

I see and hear the Ravens, flying into the sunset

Silhouettes of black and the caws of their sound.

It's all calling nature into the night

With the echoes

The echoes of darkness......


Michael VanDyke    C@ 2025