Showing posts with label willows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label willows. Show all posts

Thursday, April 3, 2025

April's Changeability

Free Pasture Willow Tree photo and picture
Courtesy of Pixabay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April smells of fresh rain showers
and the winds are changeable
with each new day, much like
my melancholy mood

The willow trees are blooming
their long slender boughs
seem to dance and sway to
some distant drum that only
nature can hear

I sit upon her sturdy roots looking
out at the open lake waters, I close
my eyes for a quick day dream in
the afternoon sun, the geese seem
to have their own plan,  honk, honk
honking…chaos in the afternoon

My eyelids flutter open and to my
surprise there is a great blue heron
standing perfectly still in the water
before me, full of grace
full of patience

I dare not breathe captivated
by this beautiful creature tilting
its head our eyes meet, then in
mere seconds on outstretched
wings it takes flight

The wind shifts and my mood
changes to a  lighter shade of blue
filled with gratefulness
I stand stretching my legs
stretching my arm
finding balance brings joy

linking with dVerse hosted by Laura
writing open - free verse

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Forever Weeping



 















In  sorrow the willow will always  weep 
opening
  her heart , tears  softly  flow 
crying for a world  that  has fallen  asleep 

planting seeds,  waiting for  dreams to reap 
under moonlight her slender  branches  glow
in  sorrow  the willow  will always  weep 

protecting precious secrets you  keep 
hidden in her trunk in the earth  below 
crying for  a world that  has fallen  asleep 

awakening silence she counts  lost  sheep
across the river  the wind  does  blow
in her sorrow the willow will  always weep

some will  fall the mountain is too steep
darkest nights, will the blackbird crow
crying for a world that has fallen asleep

hope in a horizon, sun begins to peep
will today be the day that love will grow
in sorrow the willow will always weep
crying for a world that has fallen asleep

pic Claude Monet - Weeping Willow
wikimedia

At dVerse writing Villanelle - hosted by Grace
I've never tried this before, so I am not sure
if I nailed it or not..