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In This Age
Contributed by
invierno
on
Wednesday, 9th July 2014 @ 08:45:59 AM in AEST
Topic:
NaturePoetry
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In this age, streams still burble, light still dances,
green is still green and leaves haven't left;
streams still pool 'neath cool rocky ledge;
We still sing of ourselves deep in leaves grass
on own Walden Pond ringed in heather and hedge.
In this age, singing Warblers trill, yet vigilant still
O’er ponds placid, and so they remain,
watchful to motion; now heavens release
springing from branches to flit in the rain;
to wing, to swing and sweep low,
making meals of insects asleep or to slow.
In this age, so little has changed,
but 'little' is not (I'm afraid) quite to say
the same as 'nothing'; enter now man.
This blundering creature; feeble bi-pedal, this clumsy destroyer
heedless to ponds and cool pools, with no ear to Warblers-
This 'progress' of man- Oh, so dirty my heart,
my own warbling falls silent, sprung at poems start.
But places in nature there blessedly be,
if one intrepidly tread enough far and deep-
still untrammelled, unstained, pristine it remains,
and would ever it be, but no longer so,
altered and lessened with a visit from me.
Copyright ©
invierno
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2014-07-09 08:45:59] (Date/Time posted on
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Re: In This Age
(User Rating: 1 ) by ladyfawn on
Sunday, 13th July 2014 @ 08:07:27 PM AEST (User
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wow and wow! you have out done yourself my friend!
this is by far your best ever imho, absolutely beautiful!!!!!!
hugs n' love nessa
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