A Poem a Day (281): Nature’s call

I’ve posted this one on JD Mader’s writing website, Unemployed Imagination, for 2minutesgo. Get, set, write! Head over to his place to read, write and comment… http://www.jdmader.com/2020/10/2-minutes-go_16.html

Nature’s call

 

This great responsibility,

a personal address

 

to the sacred being inside,

the peaceful thinker       

 

lost to a history of thought.

Footsteps in the park,

 

stories beyond the lake,

leaves strewn like tea

 

telling fortunes to the sky.

Oftentimes it pours here,

 

raining unseen letters,

pretty odes to nature            

 

and whispered secrets

forgotten in time.

 

Nature hears it all,

gives a silent call

 

to the speaking world

to be less,

 

tread lighter,

and leave nothing behind.

 

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, October 18, 2020