Milky opaline morning sky

smooth shimmering quicksilver sea.

Village on the point illuminated,

pink church and cream yellow houses

watercoloured by the first sunlight.

 

Then cobalt blue noonday bay

with glittering wave-tips diamond set.

duck-egg blue enamelled overhead,

white chiffon clouds haphazardly strewn.

 

Dull gunmetal water late afternoon

with wide sparkling hammered-silver sunpath

leading far out beyond the horizon.

Scaly mother-of-pearl cloud croccodile,

the village now just a flat grey cutout.

 

At evening a flaming copper sundisk,

invisible islands now magically summoned up.

Brilliant polished steel pool- surface

stabbed by murderous black shardlike shadows.

 

Then the so sudden day's end comes,

a midnight blue all enveloping dome

over dark dark slow moving water.

Three lonely stars lost in immensity,

only a smiling bright lemon yellow moon

friendly in this late autumn night.