The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.
This weeks words are:
This weeks words are:
vast salty simmering habits mind trickle secretive brim axe roots shadows stones
The Forest
“If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,
you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”
― Alan Watts
Beneath the vast canopy,
Encased in green velvet,
The forest embraces us.
Roots and branches mesh
Shadows and clearings
Animals, secretive, furtive,
Captives of their own habits.
Birds heard, seldom seen.
An axe, leans agains a tree,
Rusty, abandoned but for the moss,
Moss shared by the stones, logs.
A creek trickles and tinkles,
Fresh, clear, not salty
Part of the orchestra of the forest.
Brim full of sounds, adagio
Simmering, interlaced.
If you have a mind to listen,
A mind to connect.
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This is beautiful. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteOr indeed have a mind at all,sadly lacking in so many. A beautiful gentle poem....Wren
ReplyDeleteYour "Birds heard, seldom seen" reminds me of the challenge to us from our neighborhood. The birds are small and scattered over all the crowded rooftops. One of our short, but fun, enterprise quite often is locating as many of those singers and callers as we can. I join one part of them, the part that I can call and get a neighborhood started with. I ask, in a birdlike accent and tone, "Who cooks for you?" Even if they weren't singing at the moment a small part of the neighborhood. We have a lot of mockingbirds and I think those who sing with and back to me.
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That's a great quote from Alan Watts. And your poem is absolutely lovely. I very much agree with what both you and Alan W say.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful scene you paint..and that moss covered axe...!! Makes me want to know whose it was...why was it left there....
ReplyDeleteYou stayed true to the task and wove in all the words and their imprint into a picturesque tapestry.
ReplyDeleteGood use of the words. Like the adagio of the forest orchestra...Cressida
ReplyDeleteHow healing it is to spend time surrounded in nature like this.
ReplyDeleteI love 'the orchestra of the forest'. I have listened to some of Alan Watts' meditation. Very thought-provoking.
ReplyDeleteVery vivid! I thought I was right there.
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