these woods
I have protected these woods
for as long as i can remember
the rains drops of April
to the leaf fall of September
The secret trees have grown
and I’ve defended their splendor.
But I could not have predicted
my woods sparked into a blaze
but the random storm lightening
leaving darkness,smoke and haze
And i was cast out of Walden
left with nothing but dismay.
With no living timber to guard
With only dead ash to defend
I could see no real purpose
No meaning to comprehend
I wondered if , like my Walden
I too should meet an end.
Whether provoked by perfumes
Or a feeling deep inside
I really don’t remember
But my eyes opened wide
And began walking towards
the foreign horizon with each stride
I walked through the tall grass
over the flowering landscape
then I stopped to watch the herrings
fishing on over a blue lake
In my woods i never saw them
my woods had never had a lake.
And i looked at the flowers
and I looked the tall grass
And i realized tall woods
That were so guarded from trespass
Had blocked off the sun
From new splendors in the past.
Leaving behind me-as-defender
In the past smoky ash haze
I have become the explorer
New landscapes i will blaze
The world is to be discovered
With infinite pathways.
Well now what thoughts are these, and while you are discovering the new [to you] world beyond Walden will be renewing itself, but it’s screen will be for a later generation.
July 20, 2008 at 6:24 am
I was sure that I also said I enjoyed reading, it’s very thoughtful and has a freshh perspective
July 21, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Thank you Gentle Love. Most poems take me 15 minutes to write. took a week and a half of obsessing to finish it. Never been happy with it. but its not my worst.
Hey why can’t i get your thumbnail to show up? youll just have to keep commenting here until your new avatar shows uo
July 21, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I never liked this poem. but it autobiographical.
my “woods” burnt down in circa 2000-2001, and I wood find greater “landscapes” which had much more than my “woods” previously ever had to offer.
December 12, 2009 at 2:34 pm