Garden Songs ~ Early December Landscape
Garden Songs
“Early December Landscape”
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
December 7, 2022
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Poem
Early December Landscape
I hold my saturated blue umbrella
overhead
step carefully
on the ancient deer path.
My graceful white dog walks
gingerly ahead on sodden
leaf-carpeted terrain.
The steady drizzle
creates translucent mist
descends on our bodies
Wet dog sniffs and leads
along the well-worn path
My feet slosh and sink
over rain-soaked ripples
tread slowly on rising swells
discarded leaves
twigs
broken branches
tossed beneath naked trees.
I close my eyes
stop visual impressions
that dominate this sphere.
With eyes shut
I listen to my feet
rustle
and sink into
mounds of deep gold
and russet browns.
soothing rain falling,
flowing creek
tumbling rocks
rain drops plunking
on the old umbrella
a single crow flying over
our rural Pennsylvania world
scattered branches snapping
cars swishing along the highway
crossing the wide concrete bridge
west to Ellwood City
and east to Portersville.
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PUBLISHED:
Garden Songs, Walking by Inner Vision Blog.
Lynda McKinney Lambert
This poem – Early December Landscape, was written by Lynda McKinney Lambert, December 7, 2022. Lynda is a fiber artist and author of five books. She writes non-fiction and poetry exclusively.
His breath roared out from his lips, Stopping all streams at their source. The feet of Old Man Winter walked upon the earth, freezing all the grass.
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