INTERLUDE
| I look forward every evening to my nature interlude Where the thoughts of worldly unrest Are forbidden to intrude Where all the pure emotions Are permitted to run free And the beauty that is nature Will refresh the heart in me In the soothing shade of twilight With my old dog at my side I walk in hand with nature By the restful riverside And there upon the yielding grass I lazily recline Breathing in this view of splendour And the perfumed scent of pine All the sounds of happy wildlife Dispel the day's monotony And there's a cavalcade of wonder For my dog and I to see In the gently flowing water The rushes swoop and sway As if dancing to the music That the tiny ripples play The platypus play gleefully Across the other side And I watch in admiration As they surface, dive, and glide They're so graceful in their antics They unknowingly display Their own exclusive version Of a platypus ballet Above the playing platypus A cliff stands high and steep And from within its tiny crevices Soft, mossy fingers creep Perched on a needled branch of pine Above my grassy bed A Mountain Lowry boldly flaunts Its chest of crimson red Blue borrowed from a rainbow Adorns its tail and wings And the evening breeze is laden With the happy song it sings There's a still and silent inlet From the river's overflow And in clusters of magnificence The splendid wildflower grow With smiling floral faces Only nature can create They're proud of their importance In Nature's grand estate And tethered to the bank Where the water stops its flow are random groups of frogs eggs Like speckled tufts of snow A large fern grows upon the bank That rims this silent pond And a rabbit basks in comfort Neath the shelter of a frond With shadows slowly lengthening The light is in decline Contentment settles over me I feel a peace divine The rugged distant mountains Now stand black against the sky And the breeze is chanting softly Making sleepy willows sigh And the cobwebs of life's challenges That test us every day This interlude with nature Has brushed them all away K.D. Abbott © 2008 |
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