When nightfall turns her page
and the loon dives for her last minnow,
stars jingle through northern lights
as air spills fresh in naked lungs.
All the years of terror
fade in one brilliant
spot of joy
sifting within the heart of this -
the oneness of lake and tree.
Pine scent remodels molded mind,
moving footstools
and paper bundles
to shredders
and plastic containers.
Stored and tindered
but hindered not
with new steps taken.
I sing into the night air
releasing burdens
confessing deeds,
chanting of
indiscriminate acts -
- thoughts that dare not to sift
or drift
in idle conversation where people move.
There is no understanding
when the mind has been led -
when darker days
righted wrongs
and rights seemed not so right with wrongs
that were alright.
Muddled by insipid flavors,
chemical doused liquor
frothed with whipping cream,
becomes the skimming stone
upon the northern mirror of heart
and life as I know it bellows out!
My air squeezes to pure oxygen
clearing the beat of blood -
pushing her flow through cleansing veins.
Mind is left lightened,
burdens wash into night air
mixing with cricket chirp
and bull frog gulp
mending in birch tree limbs.
Reflections ripple
beneath Mayfly wings
as the Walleye surfaces to feed.
A contest entry
- 35 Confessions by Heart Sutra.
2200 points, ended February 16, 2008, 14 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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The natural details and beauty in this poem really makes it wonderful to read. I feel surrounded with the true sense of healing that nature can sometimes provide.
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Zayra Yves
Thank you for a wonderful comment and an awesome contest. ~Pamela
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Pine scent remodels molded mind
There is something very basic about that line. It grabbed me. You write so well, there is so much that runs deeper than the fishing trip in this piece.
Like you are telling it all, good or bad, to raw nature.
I am always glad to read one of your poems.
-Wil
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Wil
Thank you for your kind comment. I appreciate it very much. ~Pamela
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This is full of colors and flavors of a special scene, northern lakes beauty, and the scene includes deep inner reflection...this is excellent... wonderful blend of the worlds 'without' and 'within'.
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PK
Thank you for stopping by to read and leave your wonderful comment. Always a pleasure to receive your impressions.
~Pamela
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Hey, I read it twice. I'll go fish'n with you any day.
Paul
Oh yeah, nicely written
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Paul
Thank you. I do love Walleye Fishing. ~Pamela
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