For Paul Brookes’ December challenge.

Owl light and rainbow songs

Light brushes
sky and water colours
chalk and oil hues
the colour of the hidden belly of shells
cloud-smudged charcoal
the luminous neon
of storm cloud sunbursts
garlanded with rainbows

and dark night tidies
all the glitter away
with owl-feather plumes
sweeping stars bright-clean
and the soft songs of silence.