Goodbye Old Friend
By La Belle Rouge
My Lake, each day you kiss
the shores of my land and my soul
you are like an old, familiar friend
cherished in my heart now forever
i have witnessed your many moods
cerulean, smooth as a heavenly sea of glass
when the breeze lays low on mornings
and the sun caresses your face
gray and fierce under dark skies
when in upheaval you churn
in the unforgiving winds of a storm
black in moonlight adorned with diamonds
that sparkle across your ripples
while crickets sing arias of love
if you should open your depths
what treasure might an explorer find?
and if your waves should cover me
would i drown in your discontent?
i will leave you soon, My Old Friend
no more to sing in concert
with your twilight frog chorus
no more to lift my eyes in awe
with thanks to the God of Heaven
just for making you my neighbor
dreamers like me will come and go
we will sit by your banks, walk your shore
try to peer into your depths
and pray to the heavens above you
we'll wish we could flow free like you
then one day we will be no more
but you, thing of beauty
will be a joy forever
Whenever I visit nature's beauty, I always wonder who may have come before me and who might come after me.
Love & Light always and in all ways,
Joseph*
Rusty
Love,
Taylor
Sandie May Angel :o)
Indeed, an old friend: but beautifully memorialized in verse; well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
love nature writes and to this one
you have done it, a great justice
Thanks for sharing
Love & peace
William
love Tinka
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in tx., karen lynn. :D
As with this poem
Can't be replaced.
All we can do is follow the trail
With steps to retrace.
Hearing that "Twilight frog chorus"
That put a smile on my face.
DWB
Love and {{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}} my friend,
Leland