Young At Heart

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Algonquin Provincial Park is a provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in Southern Ontario, Canada. The essence of Algonquin is in its vast interior of maple hills, rocky ridges, and thousands of lakes.

Poetry Challenge words

1) Bucolic means In a lovely rural setting

2) Fugacious means Fleeting

3) Ephemeral means Short-lived

4) Halcyon means Happy, sunny, care-free

5) Harbinger means Messenger with news of the future

6) Inglenook means A cozy nook by the hearth

7) Penumbra means A half-shadow

8) Redolent means Fragrant

9) Vestigial means In trace amounts

10) Sempiternal means Eternal

I entered a village in Algonquin park as dusk approached the tattered edges of dark. And fell in love with the bucolic setting all except for the mosquito’s blood letting. The pine smell was redolent riding each breeze carrying halcyon memories of trees. And for a fugacious moment I felt lost amidst the penumbra where I weighed the cost. I could find a safe inglenook or camp out a vestigial whiff of pie gave me doubt. And taking that as a harbinger of treats to come I headed to a lodge with grass streets. My ephemeral connection with the Earth somehow gave my sempiternal soul rebirth. For I felt rejuvenated young at heart and with each footstep felt my tensions depart.