Missing My Idle Life

The poem was written shortly after I moved away from home for the first time which was in the Countryside – I missed all the beauty of nature just a tad.

An orange horizon signals

That dawn has sprung,

Another easy day has begun.

A dawn chorus is sung,

Echoing from the trees.

A wildflower gasps its first breath.

Rays of bright light

Escape from the heavens.

Nature ignites to

Breed new life.

A hazy mist

Drifts along the Lakeside

As a lazy frog

Tries to hide,

Camouflaged on a mossy log.

Nearby a stream gushes, a sheepdog rushes

Through the soggy marshes of buttercups and daisies;

Joyous jumps as he brushes over rushes, feeling free.

A rabbit’s ears twitch it decides to flee

to its bunker in a ditch.

Awake to angry car horn.

From a beautiful dream, I was torn.

Switch on the light, to lift the gloom from my room

Roll out of bed

Still like the walking dead.

I stumble to window

To glimpse the countryside.

For a second I am amazed,

Hit by an urban perfume,

“Ugh,”  I now live a city life.