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
Makes me sad I missed the experience. Sounds like quite an inspiration.
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maybe we should have a group event like it some time.
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