Ride the season's tide
of Highway Ten,
and feel crisp autumn winds
brush your skin,
as you view bright hues
crowd the valley.
Here angelic white egrets and crane
rise gracefully in scattered sorties
through thin strands of silken atmosphere,
stark against naked flint escarpments.
A distant plaintive cry of Red-Tail Hawk,
haunt fertile fields of farm and dark stretches
of shedding deciduous trees;
dwarf cedars and shortleaf pines climb up,
and over sharp slopes sealing valley;
beneath an ocean of somber clouds
that predict the approach of winter.
Author notes
This is my "ugly child"; no matter how I dress him up, suit and tie, hair combed, and shoes shined, he still comes out "facially-challenged"! The syllabic-count here is nine or
eighteen (depending on location of comma, or semi-colon). This effort is part of a short collection of autumn poems in and around Tahlequah (pronounced, tel-la-kwa),
Oklahoma. Like Santa Fe (STATE CAPITOL OF NEW MEXICO), this once beautiful place has become too popular!
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The trip wirh you was a pleasure
You know all of the neat spots there are to see, I guess that is why I like traveling with you friend...mac -
many naturally beautiful places in the world
are filled with less than pretty people and their stuff.
in this poem, you have looked beyond degradation
to find beauty.
this is a common theme in your poetry.
as a reader, it pleases me.
a very good poem.
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sometime in life hun it is hard to see why others are so mean in heart for life can be cruel...good message in heart Love the way you penned this awesome and thank you for sharing well said hugs Angel♥
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You just have a magnificent way of describing a scene and scenery. Beneath an ocean of sombre clouds, 6 words, in that one line alone and an instant picture appears in my minds eye. The whole poem was just such a pleasure to read.
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Through your writting i saw it all.
Almost back to where it was raw. That is the problem with people, they have to change things. One would think the Great Spirit didn't know how to lay the land out to start out with...mac
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Such imagery ...
and it's like a double-treat as well! The scene you described with an astute eye and then there's the other side of winter ... Those other thoughts that try and squeeze into the mind ... Yet, with 'hope' ~~ there's something that waits beyond that space and a knowingness that there just might be a new world!
A good poem that provide one with something to think about!
Isn't 10 / 40?? j
y
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