Interwoven Pink Diamonds and White Diamonds and Orange Leaves upon a Scepter and a Crown

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His poems are a scepter and a crown

That bloom in season after season, spring

And summer, autumn and then winter, down

Of snowflakes.  Snowflakes make an angel wing—

Archangel wing-like blossom—on the gold

Of diadem and scepter.  April brings

Out cherry blossoms but much more like bold

Of orchid gems.  The summer causes wings

In August nights like wings from chrysalis

Of moth upon the crown but more like black

Of jewels of moths, the taste of physalis

Resulting from them, tastes of cities’ sack.

  The autumn adds the jewels of orange and red

     That turn the scepter and the crown to dread.

© Phillip Whidden