Ode To Lake District Poem by Mandy Chen

'Ode to Lake District' by Tan Mei Yin

Only then do I know
what Beauty is
when you spread out
like cool green silk,
draping over the humble
earth upon which I
stood

I can hear you
the songs that
you have sung me to
sleep,
the birds are your
voices,
the water your humming
The flowers, children of yours
welcome me,
sways and dances in your arms

Mirror-like lakes
witness your magnificence
under the blazing sky,
the grace of God shining
on a glorious you.
In yourself, a paradise,
that Man for all his sins,
dreamt of.