Thankful Pause or Paws
Thankful Pause
I am thankful for the time
Sheri Edwards
for the freedom
for the gift
to enjoy the natural beauty
just a few miles from home,
a place the dog can roam,
and I can walk beside
the butterflies,
barn swallows,
and marsh wrens
flying above and through
the bulrushes
now growing anew
among the old
along the lake
in their own time
among our chaos
giving us our time
our place
to pause
in thanks
for earth’s beauty;
a landscape
to emulate
in literal and metaphoric ways
in our daily lives
wherever we may be
and whatever we do.
Poetry/Photography
04.25.2025
NaPoWriMo
Stopping at Banks Lake for a walk and a pause, a place to draw, a place to write as the sounds of nature sing to me in and on the water, in and through the bulrushes, above and through the sky.
I wonder, if I draw a line... 