I hope you enjoy the latest poem prompted by a most marvelous afternoon in the forest yesterday….
I found myself in the forest,
The way home to my heart song—
Here in the place I love best
Among the trees where I belong.
Through the hidden passage I walk
Where no other soul has gone
As overhead the red-tail hawk
Surfs high on the winds alone.
So I rise to join in his flight
Though my feet still touch the ground.
Together we soar to the light
From gravity now unbound.
My soul and the sky become one,
Stretching wings upon the wind
Climbing closer to the sun,
Feeling freedom without end.
Still the Earth sings her sweet refrain,
“Child, come back to this dear place.”
So as the day begins to wane,
I return home to Her embrace.
© 2016 L. Diana Henderson
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