L'aura del Campo

Fire and Flame [181] Lexi#3

Fire and Flame

1.

Fill the buckets!
Douse the flames!
The mountain blazes and sparks
when the lush green of Spring
ripens and dries.
It's ready to burn.

2.

Lower the scoop into the river.
Raise it full of fish and water.
Carry it to the burning mountain.
Drop it!
Like loaves of manna,
quench the thirst of the slopes.

3.

Blackened pines and scorched meadows
mock the silly folk who mourn.
This cycle of life and death
renews dead soils, will feed deep roots.
Come next Spring all will sprout anew
a dapper shade of emerald.

© Kåre Enga [174.181] Lexi#3 (17.julio.2017]