This Poem was Submitted By: arnie s WACHMAN On Date: 2002-10-08 11:22:35 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Cycles

The dawn crept in like warm fingers Kneading bread As the velvety hues of muted colours Covered the landscape. I watched and listened to a grey jay Hungrily stuffing itself with berries From a mountain ash tree. It’s red berries Attracting this once yearly visitor Before the snow flies and the berries turn To an acidic white rendering them useless. The grey jay knows this, as does the bushy tailed Squirrel romping across the lawn looking For dregs before he can romp no longer through  Man’s waist deep snow. He knows, the squirrel does, that winter is coming. The Canada goose heading South knows this as well Honking high above the golden leaved ash trees That already are dropping their leaves Like so much ponderous weight it can’t bear any longer.  I wonder, how do they know all this when man Has to rely on calendars and barometers? It will just be another question that I add in my journal Amongst the thousands that are already there! It too will lie unanswered, just as life to me is unanswerable

Copyright © October 2002 arnie s WACHMAN


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