Call of Appalachia (rewritten to celebrate Summer)

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Open Poetry #47

Call of Appalachia (rewritten to celebrate Summer)

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2011-07-03 02:48 PM

   Call of Appalachia

Dare to roam these
verdant summer hills…
(along resplendent streams
   of endless wander)
with a calm, clear mind
and unencumbered heart,
where ancient rocks speak
with the quiet-thunderous
‘voice’ of Deep-Time
   certainties…
and even the tiniest,
fallen leaf that drifts
in wind or water…
shall connect your spirit,
(in the ebb and flow of
precious, infinitesimal
   moments)
to an eternally creative
universal consciousness
of boundless beauty and
quintescent promise.

                 ---b. e. adams (7/3/2011)

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

1 posted 2011-07-03 07:42 PM

Love it, love it, love it! I particularly enjoy your poems about those hills that I can see so clearly in my mind's eye, Bruce.

Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2011-07-04 03:53 AM

I would love to roam those hills, Bruce, you make them sound like paradise.
Ida

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

3 posted 2011-07-04 05:25 AM

Sounds exactly how my area of appalachia feels and looks. Once you get off the road, and away from the tourists.

There is a spirit in this poem, that is the same spirit in the bear that was in my front yard yesterday.

enjoyed

Come read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling
And banish the thoughts of day.
Longfellow

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