This Poem was Submitted By: Betty Lou Hebert On Date: 2000-05-04 00:32:20 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Land Beneath the Lake

  Beneath the reservoir's calm face,   There lies a silent, haunted place.   A village drowned long years before.   Now fish swim out each open door   And when conditions are just right,   If you go rowing out, you might,   Still see the houses, when you peer   Into the depths, so green and clear.   It gives a feeling very strange   To see how people did arrange   Every road, each house and tree,   Not ever dreaming it would be   A forfeit to a dam to make   This reservoir;  this placid lake,   And as I hover overhead,   I wonder what the people said   When they were told about their fate?   What feelings did this news create?   I know how I would feel if I   Were forced to leave my home nearby.   They also must have much enjoyed   These hills and woods;  I can't avoid   A guilty feeling when I see   Their sacrifice so folks like me   Can row and fish and watch the loons.   Listen to their yodeling tunes.   Perhaps they voice an elegy   For all the dreams not meant to be!

Copyright © May 2000 Betty Lou Hebert


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