The under-painting reveals a lightly
Misted late afternoon baby blue sky
Perhaps taking up the top seventh of
This composition, olive meanders
Tinged sunny – green on distant Western
Cedar’d canopies, evergreen icons
Evidence of a much higher kind of
Peace, an ancient species cleaving pre-cambric
Nutrients to nourish precarious
Life, perched closely together, rooted
In steep layers of Valley’s mountainous
Rock, providing shelter and song for
An interesting natively – born crew
Beddings of softest mosses give respite
Bobcats, possums, catbirds, cardinals and
Carolina Chickadees all cradled in
Sweetly swaying boughs of tender’d embrace
Colorful fungus adorns decaying
Hickory trees, heart and sapwood provides
Cellulose rations for termite’s café
Felled horizontal curbs mark ancient
Well traveled hidden paths, a treaded
Multi - generational trek, gateways
To wide open sun - graced feeding hills
Inviting contemplation nurtures all,
Colorful artists, writers, readers, huge
Black bear, white – tailed fawns, yellow jackets
Occasional blue birds flit near thorny
Honey locust, tall violet thistle-d sold
-iers give energy to bumble bee’s sky-
Dances, feathered sedges keeping beat, mellow breezes
Supporting hawk’s purposeful departure
Crows swagger on overhangs shooting the breeze
Cawing bellicosely to whoever might
Listen, over painting of this precious
Cacophony features geometric
Light and sepia - shaded angulate
-d planes, criss -crossed fine antlered twigs
Now naked, deciduous and lichen
Festooned branches tidily sweeping heaven’s
Edge, three distinct stronger trunks dominate
The foreground, a greater ancient, seeming
Wiser warrior envelopes trinities
In and as one vine-laced covenant
(Mountaintop, Tennessee
December 13,2006)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Nice concrete imagery. Loved the animals.