BeckoningA Poem by Lloyd PotterA mans journey on the path to enlightenment.The beckoning call to the forest tipped my ears this day,
rising from my nest of fabrics; the time says 5:55 Morning routines fall into their place, alas another cup of
coffee matched only to the orange juice just drank Then I’d dawn my non best fabric and open the door to the
fresh oxygen and sun rays of a place called outside, mother nature The morning seems almost strangely quiet, as if the robin’s
neighbors had gone on vacation leaving only them and chickadees to do the primordial
rhythm keeping Green shades vibrate in waves from my peripherals; blue
pulsates with verticals from above with only a few nomadic white figures
crossing the sky below the atmosphere of cold, and so so old I make my way step by step across the grass, feeling the softness
of the mother earth to the trail at lawns end; there I meet the path leading
into the forest, fenced by the walls of pine, maple, and oak stretching past my
eyes confines Say only after a few moments of bearing my course through
the ocean that ticks green, my ears caught an alarm, then my vision a sheen... © 2013 Lloyd PotterAuthor's Note
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Added on May 9, 2013 Last Updated on May 9, 2013 Tags: epic poetry, Buddha, Buddhism, reincarnation AuthorLloyd PotterBurlington, VTAboutI'm from Vermont, a quaint mountain town, and I love creating art of all kinds from painting to writing to sketching random themes. more..Writing
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