L'Nass Shango Poet Verse

There Is a Place

There is a place a lonely place
I love to go when I am sad
There is a place a quiet place
I know it since wee a lad
              And through the green rushes there flows
              A shining stream, a boy straying found
              Far from school room rigors, and the plow's
              Churning of the peanut lands so brown

There is a place a lovely place
That hushes a boy to sleep
And balm his tremors with its grace
So his lonely heart never weep
              For mother was busy earning a daily bread
              And father was only a learned man
              And school was such a bother to the head
              I needed a space that said "I can."

Now I am grown and far away
And care and toil wears me thin
I need my lonely place to stay
The river where the eddies spin
              For in a city's life I hear all day, the wail
              And sorrow of loud sirens, another child
              Have tried to fly, another dream that's fail
              To open, another longing for the lonely wild

There is a place a lonely place
I love to go when I am sad
And there is a face a haunting face
That makes the aching bad
              It's gone, it's gone the misty morning rose
              The sunlight dripping from leaf tips of dawn
              The balmy wind that from the mountain blows
              And she too, but not the lonely, lonely fawn.

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Mary Meade Stephenson December 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM Another wonderfully written piece you have penned here. We all have our secret place that we need in order to survive the craziness of life. I know I do. All we can do is to have the hope for a better tomorrow where not one soul would have to feel sorrow. Thanks so much for sharing and for taking the time to read and comment on my works~Mary

Caroline Cécile Delacroix December 7, 2009 at 10:43 PM Beautiful poetry all throughout. It is good to have a place where we can go and be alone, breathing air and beauty when there is so much ugliness in our world. Thanks for sharing and again thank you for your kind comments on my poems today. Be well, Caroline.

Sara Kendrick December 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM Beautiful, expressive, and descriptive. Keep the magical pen flowing. Sara