Visit the hidden places,
hear the river speak rapids,
follow paths winding into wilds.
Find bear tracks, see fish glint,
and listen for moose.
Live in harmony.
Pitch your voice’s timbre
to meld with wind,
soughing in pines,
distant thunder’s grumbles and
crows, complaining blackly.
Hear sparrows gossip.
Match your silence to
the joy of sunshine
on all growing things.
Follow the green path,
and your voice,
unheard in the wilds,
will be thick with thoughts,
sprouting like mushrooms
in the dark, fertile places.
Copyright 2015 Brenda Davis Harsham
17 thoughts on “Green Path”
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This is a good message! Get out there and fill yourself with nature – very vibrant!! 😀 I should do much more of that myself. Even though I live in a city, I’m blessed to have a lot rural areas not too far from me, and the beach too – best of both worlds. Thanks for the encouragement, and reminding me my computer screen is not perhaps the best way to view nature. The real world has a much better fragrance!! 😉
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Yes, indeed, and a garden isn’t the same as a National Forest. 🙂 Nature in its rawest is so exciting.
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Wow Brenda – your writing always takes me to another place. I feel like i hear the Earth talking through your words.
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I’m so glad in this concrete age that you can hear the earth through my words. That is a deep compliment, thank you!! XOXO
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Wow, Brenda! A very ecological call through your great poetry! Bravo! XX Fabio
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I love this passage,
“Follow the green path,
and your voice,
unheard in the wilds,
will be thick with thoughts,
sprouting like mushrooms
in the dark, fertile places.”
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And so mine were in the mountains, thick with thoughts. 🙂 Some of that crept into my poetry.
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I feel these feeling while out in nature, but am not able to articulate it. I’m saying it again. I’m so glad I found you! I relate to what you’re saying, and connect. When the book comes out I’m ordering it!
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What a nice thing to say! Thank you!
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and oh, what a beautiful path )
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It’s a path that calls to my heart. 🙂
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How lovely! 🙂 And dreamy! 🙂
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Thanks, Line!! 🙂
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That looks like a bridge I’d just have to cross – beautifully matched words and pictures
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I walked across it, and I could see a wide path pushed through the brush — on the way to a raspberry patch. I think it was a bear! So exciting.
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Beautiful Brenda, words and photo 🙂
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Thanks, Dan! 🙂 I wish I could follow my own advice every day.
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