Poetry Monday :: Bodies of Water

Brought to us by Diane of  On the Alberta/Montana Border, Jenny this time provide us with Bodies of Water

 This time I delve deeply into my childhood memories, from a time when life was unpleasant at home and at school. 
 Nature was my place to go, and long bike rides, hikes through my woods and day dreaming and deer watching at my favourite lake, quieted the buzz in my head, and I felt once more alive and at peace with the world.

The Lake
Here on the shore I sit and watch.
The deer are munching in the grass.
The dragonflies in dancing swings,
Tell me of life's most simple things.
The duckweed shines, like silver bright
A deer jumps off, its tail flash white.

A red kite hovers in the sky.
And mice and crickets chirp and cry.
A fish leaps up, concentric rings
Spreads outward like a wave that sings.
I lean back 'gainst the mossy tree,
One with the life that's around me.


Then suddenly the squeaks and thrill
grow quiet and all motion still.
I feel as though the veil is torn.
I glimpse the Truth, and hope is born.  


I think the thing, I experienced by that lake - and a few other times in my life since then -  is the same that L.M. Montgomery calls The Flash. A feeling of the time, world and space being transparent to a degree where only a thin veil hides the big truth about life, the universe and everything.