Stark Beauty Beckons
Cast off your blindfolds with open eyes,
The golden dawn morphs in blue skies.
Emerald grass with dewdrops pearled…
Stark beauty beckons in this world.
Behold the jewel colors of fall,
Noble maple stands bare and tall.
On the ground, its crimson leaves whirled…
Stark beauty beckons in this world.
Blue jays frolic in pure white snow,
Deer cavort in fields of fallow.
Each day new treasures are unfurled…
Stark beauty beckons in this world.
Cast off your blindfolds with open eyes…
Stark beauty beckons in this world.
Colleen Keller Breuning © 2021
November 14, 2021
This Kyrielle Sonnet was written for the Instagram Group @hergrowthcollective. The topic for 11/11/2021 was “Appreciation.” Appreciation is such a broad term, and there are so many blessings and things that we should appreciate in our lives. I narrowed the focus of my poem to appreciating the beauty of nature all around us in this world.
We get so busy with day to day life and tasks that we often don’t take the time to just look out our window or move away from our computer screens. There is a world of beauty to behold each day, whether it be in our family members, friends, music, food, or nature. Take the time to slow down, breathe deep, open your eyes, observe and appreciate.
Today, I see beauty in the colorful autumn leaves, squirrels burying nuts in the yard, cats gazing out the window, crystal blue skies dotted with puffy clouds. And that makes me grateful and calm. Tell me, what do you see? What things you appreciate in your life?
xoxo Colleen
Mood: Wonderful
Inspiration: “We Played Some Open Chords” by A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Colleen Keller Breuning 
Colleen, your poem makes me wonder… Will the things we see in Heaven, be the same things we saw on Earth, but were too busy to see them as they really were?
You are so wise…. I think you have a good perspective here my friend! HAPPY NEW YEAR! XOXO