Poet Laureate! Not this time :)
I entered a poetry competition to win a week’s stay at the Pacuare Nature Reserve in Costa Rica and to become their Poet Laureate for a year and as you can see from the title, I did not win :)
The prompt was to write a poem of up to 100 lines on the subject of wildlife or the boundaries between the human and the natural.
This was my entry.
The elegance of things
The elegance of things
touching atmospheres of all
The beauty of mist
rising in droplets of beginnings
The feelings one feels
upon seeing within her turmoils
the calm of patient resilience
The elegance of things
growing strength from weakness
The simplicity of knowing
how we became such things as we are
The feelings one feels
upon reaching inside nature’s heart
to feel her beats of life
The elegance of things
sun rising and sun setting
The structure of shadows
stretching to build new horizons
The feelings one feels
upon hearing the songs of her children
as they are born, as they die
The elegance of things
freeing the auras to shine
The empathy of humanity
slowly turning the pages of reason
The feelings one feels
upon breathing her scent of morning
as she flowers her beauty
The elegance of things
growing in the darkness
The chaos of time
sending ripples into eternity
The feelings one feels
upon imagining her hidden smile
waiting to ignite
The elegance of things
beautifying within and without
The wild life of nature
erupting with free spirits of peace
The feelings one feels
upon hearing the songs of her children
as they die, as they are born
~
As a leaf falls
know this Earth is not ours
