Yucca Sky Ballet

I remember vividly
      was only yesterday
Lying on the lawn I witnessed
    Yucca Sky Ballet!

Twas sunset o'er the mountains
    Horizon set the stage
For Cloud ensemble, Heavens lit
    and Yucca Sky Ballet

The orchestra bobbed throughout the pit
    with odd, breezy squeaks
All with cotton pompadours
    and brassy pointed beaks

Then pausing on my leg
    a bug reminded that my knee
Was claimed by tiny tickets
    as the spider balcony

The suave and svelte balletomanes
    were ushered to their seats
By a chromium-suited beetle
    mincing a high desert beat

At once a dome of deepening blue
    itself a lovely treat
Was speckled black by crows, who late
    were scrambling for a seat

A chilling wind passed through the crowd
    and turned the weeds to tumble
A cymbal CRACKING! split the house
    a drummer drummed a rumble

Then all went silent, all went still
    for twenty million rows
As SunKing pulled the backdrop down
      a spectrum burst aglow!

And then I spotted Joshua
    twas gliding through a cloud
He leaped! into the boiling fog
    effortless and proud

So followed Yucca dancers
    weaving through the sky
interpreting the history
    for all that's lived on high

While urgent pooling shadows
    stretching 'cross the trails
showed yesterday the passion plays
    and ancient desert tales

An orchestra colossal
    grand and bold and proud
did puncuate by blasting
    shards of light into the crowd!

And at the height of movement
    they wave a billion hands
a moving, leafy cosmic shroud
    to filter light from land

Then such explosive chaos
    too much for human eyes
Myriad troupes of ballerinas
    spun deftly 'cross the sky

And when the raging tempest
    grew mightiest (spider gone)
I rose to greet the climax
    and applauded on my lawn

Then thunderfelt emotion
    would flood old nature's place
A trillion tears came forth
    and rolled along the desert face

Behold now the Performers!
    Anchored and unswayed
Wonderously rehearsing
    for the Yucca Sky Ballet