Poetry Friday - Escaping The Noise

 

            It's Poetry Friday, and Karen Edmisten is hosting HERE at her blog.  Not only does she have a "blog with the shockingly clever title" but she's sharing a loving fall tune and a laugh from a favorite movie - poetry goodness! Thanks for hosting, Karen!

            It was cold and rainy this last Wednesday, now warmth is back and clouds have traveled on. But on Tuesday it was sunny and in the mid-seventies and I went walking at a favorite lake. It was such a day that in April, we would all be saying "almost summer"! This visit was rewarded with many geese, out doing their own version of sunbathing, also dunking in to grab a bite, nearly all squawking and talking, at least I imagine they, too were loving the sunshiny calm day! Here's a pic:

           And then, the sun went behind a cloud as I walked around to the other side, and there was the loner. I imagined all kinds of things, mostly his wish for some peace, like all of us! Or, perhaps he wished, like Frank Sinatra, to do it "His Way." 

a tanka

the raucous gaggle

pushes me into a glide

quieter water calls

for sunny meditation,

returning slowly 

 

Linda Baie ©