Longest Shadows
slight, silky rain stops,
across this grassy vale,
patches of burnt brown,
remnants of last bushfire
that has just died down;
here, there, hesitantly,
along blackened edges
of rocks, like emerald coil,
tender, green shoots sprout
just an inch above moist soil;
such pleasant green stain
bespeaking the miracle
of death and resurrection,
evoking the eternal wonder
of loss and regeneration,
of young life bubbling forth
from the decay and ashes
of the recent, adjacent past,
of those in previous lives
with longest shadows cast!
Copyright © Romeo Naces | Year Posted 2008
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