A Mothers Decree

Kneeling on a weathered rock
    Near top of treeless hill.
 Where silent wings of hunting hawk
    Ride the winds of higher still.

 Distanced stands the tree line.
    Their shadowed tops are seen below.
 A breath of air gives hint of Pine.
    The watchful deer move to-and-fro.

 The sky above holds depth in blue.
   Fading slow - but holds no smear.
 To reach for it yields no clue
   That a touch of sky exists so near.

 A cardinal calls from far away.
    There’s distant hammering beak-to-wood.
 Faint chattering’s of a squirrel at play.
    The caw of crow - then there it stood.   

 Beyond the trees and down the valley
   Stands the bridge to town.
 The road now empty - cannot see -
   Through trees and rolling ground.

 Beneath the bridge a stream runs free.
   It’s crystal waters now run clear.
 The world around to hear and see. 
   It's been a swift retreat to yesteryear.

 In the town that lay down yonder
   The steam pipes now run dry.
 Smokeless stacks to ponder
   Against a flawless sky.

 The Cardinal and the beak-to-wood
   When at a distance seldom heard.
 The stream where once I stood
   Slid murky and disturbed.

 Seems Mother Earth grew angry.
   She’s been moaning with a tilt.
 She has forced her loud decree,
   “Just stop it … … Now be still..!”


   By:  Shadow Seeker    May 2020

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020



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