I MAY NEED MY UMBRELLA TODAY....

Inspired by Tovli's 10 word contest for prose poem/journal. The ten words are: imagine, ant, wandering, tree, shade, wildly, tears, fall, gently, umbrella

 

 

  

I may need my umbrella today...

 

To catch the raindrops as they fall like tears

to sit for a while, then trickle down in little rivulets to make pretty puddles...

A lone ant hurries back to a hole in the brickwork long before the sky even had a chance to turn grey...

I can imagine his cosy little abode amid the long concrete passages leading to chamber after chamber like a pyramid...

his palace of safety after wandering busily and industriously all day..... following shade trails to a paperbark tree. while leaves suddenly unsettled by

a gust of wind danced in a frenzied state, but not fazing him... 

 

I may need my umbrella today…. 

to shade me from the blazing hot summer sun  

that causes thirsty rivers to dry and brown skin to crack and peel like wallpaper stripped back

gently revealing the soft underbelly of   

nature’s constantly changing sweet renewal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (c) Helena 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

THANK YOU FOR READING MY WORDS!

Reviews

[imm's place]

wow, very picturesque and held my attention all the way through a great masterpiece, mary

[M.M.]

Written well,m.m.

[doreen cyr]

awesome write
doreen