Inner Fires

An artist’s canvas stretched , a matricide
Saturday was shopping then a walk
Epping,Ongar,Finchingfield by car
Reading book reviews and chewing stalks
Buttercups and meadows,Henry Moore

Driving back from Chelmsford, cornfields flamed
Smoke and fire and earth, the sun dismayed
Farmers working hard,  a harvest, grain
The sky  through mist a cobalt  blue displayed

Standon with its fords and wandering cows
Little rivers,Essex, flowing down
The Stort joins with the Lea,a gurglimg sound
Water for the Thames  and mossy ground

The earth feels like my body sacrificed
An artist’s canvas stretched , a matricide
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Mcgee Avatar
May 18, 2020 at 7:35 AM
a beautiful picture you have penned.
Braithwaite Avatar
May 18, 2020 at 2:27 PM
Thank you so much,Jeanne.I still remember those days
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