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Rated: 13+ · Book · Nature · #1439094
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
NURTURE your NATURE

For my blog "Nurture your Nature"


Nature can nurture our writing, can nurture our soul. What is the language of Nature? And how do we learn it?

We look at the natural wonders around us and do not see them, hear, taste nor smell them. They do not touch us anymore than we dare touch them. And then we wonder why we feel so dead. To breathe in and live like a child again opens the Land of Wonderment. It's still there after all these years.

September 1, 2020 at 1:59am
September 1, 2020 at 1:59am
#992008
Red, gold and green

Green arbors of August
sag under a film of dust
(the dry-leaf rustle
and dry-throat rattle)

until change in the air
lightens their despair
as sunlight softens
and nights lengthen

while green yellows
and elks bellow
in the midst of the rut —
how gold turns to rust

and those reds we behold,
once bold,
that adorn the forest's crown
soon fade to brown

as all life bleeds
to prepare itself, a need
to cast off color
for deep sleep's pallor

perhaps to wake to light
after cold white nights
under a banquet of snow —
for inner embers glow

to hearten the hope that sings
of verdant spring
and renewal — after the breath
of autumn's death

and winter's hibernation —
that cessation
of what was once pursued,
now resting, waiting to be renewed.

© Kåre Enga [177.233] (25.september.2020)


32 irregular lines with an aabb rhyme.

For September 2020:
FORUM
Verdant Poetry Contest - On Hiatus  (E)
NATURE-themed quarterly contest.
#2000001 by Choconut ~ House Targaryen


Picture for the Verdant Poetry Contest.

prompts:HIBERNATION, CHANGING, COLOURFUL, DARK NIGHTS, WOODLAND WALKS.


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