Forest Secrets
By skinner_jennifer
- 1980 reads
Meandering
Forest banks
Looping waves
Of green those
Silent ferns
Lie serene,
Even swelter
Scorching sun
Cannot rob cool
Sense of calm,
Across a path
Riven wrenched
Trunk once stood
Tower of strength,
Tall and proud with
Leaves endowed,
Cloaking layers
Of vegetation in
This wild habitation,
Now rests prostrate
Transfixed lifeless,
No more part this
Earth's soil explored,
Gone root camaraderie
Life's giving liberation
Flourishing with vigour
Relationship now ending.
Soon autumn's pulpy leaves
Will soften cushioned mire,
Self-absorbing physical presence,
Ancient remoteness penetrating...
Pushing, with eyes on another
Pensive winter, covering secrets
Only deepest nature grasps.
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On a very hot afternoon,
On a very hot afternoon, thank you for taking me to your lovely forest Jenny - it's just what I needed!
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Calm and cool under the trees
Calm and cool under the trees by the river!
A sense of time back to when the tree was standing, living, and forward to autumn and winter changes ahead. Rhiannon
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Lovely. Ferns as waves of
Lovely. Ferns as waves of green - inspired. Rachel :)
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into the words and into the
into the words and into the woods. taste the green scene.
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I like that you say the ferns
I like that you say the ferns are silent, because they don't rustle much even when the wind blows, just sort of twist about! Maybe they seem calm because they are prehistoric? You set the scene so well.
And I love "tall and proud with leaves endowed"
also "root camaraderie" made me think of the other world and how little I understand of all the messages and help trees send through their roots. It suggests so much with one word
The whole poem makes me think of the circle of life, the tree sinking back into the Earth, to rise again soon as food for a new sapling
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Good one
I'm bad at poetry because you really need great word choices, where prose is a little more forgiving for using a synonym. You really nailed this one. Great work
GGHades502
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