Lost Echoes - For Contest

Lost Echoes lost echoes wander silent valleys reverberations orphaned tones disconnected from their source long ceased – solemn call to prayer wasted on the ears of the callous dried on the clapper’s lips no need to welcome revelers invite the workers from their fields the center of their lives resides elsewhere frayed, dusty ropes hang muted no hands to give them voice soft winds and whispers fading on the fallow fields of hope dry, creaking, members bowing under toneless weight birds, undisturbed in their nesting, coo in the conic complacency of the hollow past the world is deafened now the last of the pealing bell tones - lost echoes – wandering silent valleys John G. Lawless 7/25/2015 submitted to –For whom the bell tolls – Poetry contest sponsor – Debbie Guzzi