A Walk In The Park. Poem by Susan Williams
A Walk In The Park.
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Today the trees in the park are greening
and the geese are returning
and the sparrows are nesting
and the park below my fifth floor window is calling to me.
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Today I'm watching the lovers walking in the park
walking and talking through the park
and sitting on a bench to watch
the summer softball teams playing
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Today the leaves to life are clinging
and the winds of change are crying
and the grass and twig nests are empty
and all over the park the leaves are letting go.
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Today the branches are capped with silent spectral snow
and the sky is a bitter biting blue
and I watched a little sparrow let go
and fall from the branch frozen stiff
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Today the rain is etching painful paths down the window pane
I do not think I will sit by the window today
I think I will stay instead in bed today
and remember what it was like to take a walk in the park.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~©2017 Susan Williams.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~January 10,2017
Incredible. I love how you have each stanza begin with today, and how poignantly the window (your vision) plays so into the first and final stanza, like a deep, melancholy longing to look, yet not quite see. The cold as metaphor is sublime. Perfect.
part 3---thank you for reading my poems and inhaling their essence and giving back a warm understanding---thank you for reading my work, you make it so worthwhile
part 2--- you make writing a poem so worthwhile because you allow me to see how it affects you and adds something special to your day's experience---Wow!
Today I'm watching the lovers walking in the park walking and talking through the park and sitting on a bench to watch the summer softball teams playing......the past memories reflected here touchingly. A beautiful poem relating to life and death has been shared amazingly.
Thank you, Kumarmani, for pointing out your favorite verses in this piece. I appreciate the input! ! !
Absolutely beautiful. Every line so visual. It was wonderful and also sad to take this walk through the park with you. Thank you so very much for sharing with us.
Thank you, Charlotte. It was a pleasure to hear I made the walk so real for you and others!
Susan I came to the park because you took me there then I learnt that it was only imagination. Such a wonderful poem full of feeling and freely flowing!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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One of the very best poems I have read on poemhunter, for certain. It has an essence of Rainer Maria Rilke floating through it, like the wind of that 'nearby country' called life.
Smoky, your comments read like poetry and reveal a heart sensitive and gentle--I am glad you read my poems, my friend