"The Oak's Thoughts"

      The Oak's Thoughts

 

              You stand there

               stripped naked

             your arms reaching

                    forlornly...

               toward the sky.

              Reaching upward

            into the gloomy greys

                     of winter.

                 With no warmth

                or beauty showing

                 through the haze

               of another cold dawn.

                      Your heart

                 longing for spring

                     to once again

                 enclose you in it's

                         warmth.

                  Dressing you in...

                   shades of green

              so that your nakedness

                     will be hidden

                  from prying eyes.

               Hating the color green

                 you long for summer

                 to speed hastily by

                        leaving you

                            clad in

                autumn's beautiful dress.

              With bright hues of orange

                         red and gold

                           forgetting...

                 that once autumn passes

                       you will once again

                           stand naked.

                         Arms reaching...

                           in winter's ice.

        

                      Valentine

           

Reviews

[wordman]

and this goes in a yearly circle,all seasons it will change
a lovely nature write

[Valentine]

Ron, autumn was just too darn short. Months seem to be flying by. Kathie

[wordman]

we`re getting older my dear

[Valentine]

Did you have to remind me!!!!!! [smiling] Kathie

[wordman]

ent you a group invite,

[ANTO]

I have read many poems in which the tree's limbs are likened to human limbs - reaching and stretching heavenwards but it never grows old. To wonder what the oak tree - with its long life-span must be thinking is wonderfully creative. Well penned Kathie.

[Valentine]

Thank you for you nice comment. Kathie