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Open Poetry #16

The Image I Shall Carry

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2001-10-29 11:23 AM

The Image I Shall Carry

A tree growing on a rocky cliff,
a branch moving in the wind,
a leaf fluttering gently to the ground,
a squirrel hiding it’s winter supply,
a caterpillar weaving it’s cocoon
to later emerge a beautiful butterfly...

A bird song welcoming the sun,
oxygen, a gift from the trees,
pure water, the life blood of Mother nature:
all these things work in harmony
to make this earth a living being.

When we finally realize and admit
we are also a part of all that is:
not above nor greater than;
will we change the way we live?
Will we know we don’t inherit the land,
we borrow it from the future?

I gather my paints, I take my canvas,
and on the bank of a river, among nature,
I begin to paint the beauty that surrounds me
why?  Well, it seems to me
that if man does destroy this lovely world,
I will still have my picture,
and I will remember.

When I arrive in my new world,
I will have my picture and upon this image
I will create, not a new reality
but a reality I lost when the love I gave to Earth
was trampled under the feet of unfeeling beings.
Thus shall I live the life I dreamed of
when I still lived here and powerless
to hold back the tides of destruction.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-10-29 11:24 AM

We are not all, unfeeling...

thank you for this...

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2007-10-06 09:27 PM

Oh, I am so happy to have discovered this in the archives.
It is much too wonderful to have been buried for so long.....

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2007-10-06 09:29 PM

THIS is truly MAGNIFICENT!!

I am SO glad Ms. 'Midnitesun' found it again!

EXTREMELY serious, long-sustained applause!!
[a GRAND 'poetic standing ovation' for this
'write'!]

ArtSolstice
Member

since 2007-03-18

Posts 498

4 posted 2007-10-07 08:28 PM

What a treat to see this writing! Thanks to Midnitesun for revisiting and commenting on it so we can read and enjoy it, some of us (like me) for the first time.

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