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The jewels of Texas are displayed only
in the springtime.
Brilliant gems of various shapes and sizes.
Celestial shades of
yellow, orange, red, purple,
lavender, pink, blue,
and white,
sprinkled generously across
the length and breadth of the state.
Their seasonal showing is
not on black velvet,
not locked inside glass cases,
nor protected by armed security guards.
The Lone Star jewels stand proudly
– and free –
beside highways and gravel trails,
on sandy banks of dry ditches,
among prickly pear spines,
adorning trees and shrubs,
gracing wind-swept hills and well-tended gardens.
Those Texas jewels will never adorn the head of royalty
for, by July, they will be gone,
hidden again,
by scrub brush, hot sand, cactus spines, and hungry livestock,
until next spring.
Then the state jewels of Texas will bloom again!
How clever of the Creator
to hide the most gorgeous of gems
in the most unexpected of places!
mshr-4/14/07
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