Death Be Now Proud: A Highly Articulated Shrimp as Gem

            Death Be Now Proud:

A Highly Articulated Shrimp as Gem

The lighting strikes, extreme in angle, from

Above and glints from it a glory, gold

And glowing.  It’s as if it is a-hum

With lustres of the richest hue and bold

In purest warmth.  The sandstone it is trapped

In is a calmer color, almost cool

Like air in summer that is gently sapped

Of heat by tranquil winds.  The ancient pool

That acted as its scene of death is now

So long forgotten it is out of grasp

Of human minds.  It is a mystery how

Such loveliness could come from ancient gasp.

..So many hundred millions of stone years

….Have passed that beauty now replaces fears.