Weep Not For Me

Sentries draped in forest green.

Stretching, reaching, branching,

Bending to the wind commands.

 

Standing fast to meet the water

Weeping, swaying to the tune

Of nature as she flows beside you.

 

Glorious guardians bless the shoreline

Poetic wall of timeless beauty

Secret rendezvous beneath your leaves

 

Rain blends with the tears of decades

Prayers offered to your mother

Earth her name who gave you life.

 

Someday let me lie beneath you

When last my breath joins the breeze

Emerald green will be my headstone.

Reviews

[Sheila Kline]

Your words are beautiful, serene, and the message you impart makes one thankful for all that we are a part of in life. How lovely is:

Glorious guardians bless the shoreline
Poetic wall of timeless beauty

I can just imagine this in my spirit!

Your free verse form is excellent!

[steppenwolf]

Oh wow. There is no doubt that you have found your "writer's voice."
Reads beautifully out loud, makes me feel calm and at peace.

[zainul]

You have the spiritual maturity to join the breeze under the emerald green headstone.
Amazing work linking the life and death with aspiration of green and blissful life.

[Chris]

Smooth well toned and serene...

[Mark]

That we might all stand in a copse of woods, amid a landscape of gentle hills, and look above us, and below us, and see the Sculptor who formed it all, and our place in His scheme, both present and eventual, rather that the mundanities of grass to be mown and leaves to be raked. This is a lovely and a prescient vision.

[Omar Fendri]

as I was collecting my thoughts together, the thoughts which your poem gave me, I realized how much beauty's lingering in the inner structuring of this poem... There's a gentle charm in the meaning of those words. The images you painted are admirably glamorous 'Poetic wall of timeless beauty, Secret rendezvous beneath your leaves'.
Perfection at its finest...

[Judas Hammer]

Someday let me lie beneath you
When last my breath joins the breeze
Emerald green will be my headstone.
love this verse----nice piece

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

If you live life to the fullest there will be no regrets in the afterlife.
Beautiful poetry.

[Tate Morgan]

Someday let me lie beneath you
When last my breath joins the breeze
Emerald green will be my headstone.
this is the best of this piece .
Alook into the future of all of us

[RSalassi]

A fitting tribute to nature.............