airmail from the amazon (august 2018)

Cherry

By Di_Hard

Thu, 15 Aug 2019
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14 comments
 

surrounded by green

everywhere I walk

through Life, breathe leaf breath

 

only the wind comes

guiltless messenger

of our destruction

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Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

beautiful and chilling at the same time

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

As Insert said, lovely, though I'm wonderfing all that is in your mind re the wind. – It is soon going to remove much of the green we see,

or are you thinking of the future of ourselves, or the world? Wind is often used as metaphor for the movement unseen of God's Spirit, and he has power to destroy, but also power to give life and empower with his own power in love. And he has said that ultimately the future is in his hands. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou for the cherries :0)

Thankyou for your thoughtful comment Rhiannon. It was one of those which come into your head like you had nothing to do with it and al you have to do is remember till you get home to write it down

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hello Di,

I can just imagine you walking through the woods breathing in all that leafy air, but knowing that it won't last when autumn comes around again and blows the leaves away, a bit like ourselves, the wind brings the message that even we won't last and eventually become part of nature.

A poem for me that suggests everything is part of the cycle of life. Nice one!

Jenny.

 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou Jenny :0) You must be on the computer at exactly the same time as me :0) It does feel Autumny now, doesn't it? There aren't any actual yellow leaves yet but the air is sort of lemony? And the rowan berries are brightening

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I agree Di,

you just have to feel the freshness returning...thank goodness.

Makes me smile just thinking about it. smiley

Hope you and yours manage to get out and about and enjoy that lemony air. wink

Jenny.

 

 

Submitted by onemorething on

This is a lovely, delicate poem. Like a leaf of a poem actually with its hint of darkness too.  I loved, ‘breathe leaf breath’ and the threatening wind. 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou :0)

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Terrible. Unstoppable. Inevitable. A very nice poem, in a nutshell!

All the best! Tom Brown

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou Tom! That is very kind of you to take the time to read and leave such a lovely comment.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Di, have you retitled this in the light of the current horrendous fires in the Amazon basin?

Somehow it makes quite a different reference for it, before it seemed to speak of the simple normal British autumn creeping in, but now of that great sad devastation. Rhianon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

um, it was about Siberia started it. But also thinking about the fires in Portugal and California I think. I am so bad at thinking up titles.Just calling it Woods (which is what most of mine are about) is a cop out :0) It was thinking about the title Son God which made me stop being so lazy! Reading Onemorething's poems and how they can mean different things, I like that what you bring to something adds extra meaning and I am so glad you and Jenny thought of Autumn when you read it :0)

Thankyou so much for reading it again! The trouble is now it can only be about this time, when before it could be about every year at the beginning of Autumn

 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I suppose because you only mentioned wind destruction, and not fire at all, we didn't make that connection before. ? Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

the smell of burning/sparks/pollution and smoke are carried by the wind, like a message of what is happening elsewhere? But so also is the smell of Autumn, that freshness which must blow in from colder countries, or the rain. The wind cannot choose what it brings. We are to blame for both the  deliberately set fires and the climate change which causes them to burn more fiercely than they would have in the past? I feel safe in the woods here, but all trees are suffering with the changes, and I wish I could help them! I believe climate change will be the destruction of not just the trees, but all of us, as the trees are the first line of defence?