Beyond the Valley

September 21, 2012 at 9:04 am (Poems) (change, earth, fear, fire, holding, hope, lost, nature, poem, poems, poetry, roots, trees, waiting, world)

The night fire blazes
casting shadows across the hills
acrid smoke scorching the throats of trees

They hold their ground
wrapping order in roots regrouping
on ancient acclivities and in wiser minds.

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