Scene 05-30 Today was All Write

A wonderful Hike and Write by day and poetry reading by night  by WA state poet laureate Elizabeth Austen. Here’s the first draft of what I wrote…

Trees fall backdrop

to sounds below

Clear stream gurgling

alongside and secretly

dropping to a place unseen

Soon slipping over stones

without sound

Then stagnant

stones buried in silent silt

dark and tinted

with black shadows of fern and grass

flat and lifeless

Harsh shadows drip down

trunks of fir

-reminders of sun’s bright day above

Flowers are presented by blackberries

-bouquet

And the hum of life irresistible

and industry inescapable carried on

by bees buzzing in blackberry cups bountiful

But one is stilled

-bound by blossom bier

pollen crusted legs still heavy with purpose.

-Sheri J. Kennedy

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