Listen

sorenbarrett

The world speaks to me, but not in words you know

words that only the wind and waves can pronounce

songs that only birds can sing

the language of the stars that tells of the seasons

speaking in tongues long forgotten by man

as his senses diverged from other living forms

Long before lies were invented

the breeze's whisper told of approaching storms

a whale's song searched for a lost mate

the herald of the times shown in the sun's joy

now drowning cries in a yellowing leaf

the light from the heavens blocked by time

the smell of fertile earth removed from life

a bee's dancing map disrupted by insecticide

every splash in the pool

and creak of a branch

has its meaning

you only need to listen

  • Author: sorenbarrett (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 18th, 2023 11:54
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • orchidee

    Good write SB.

    • sorenbarrett

      Thanks Orchi for the review and comment.

      • orchidee

        Listen to me - I was a werewolf once, but I'm all right noooowwwwww! Ya listening?! lol.

      • L. B. Mek

        Brilliant!
        (forgive me my friend
        but see how impressively
        your words compare, to arguably
        the best lines of one of Poesy's
        great's)
        “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
        There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
        There is society, where none intrudes,
        By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
        I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
        From these our interviews, in which I steal
        From all I may be, or have been before,
        To mingle with the Universe, and feel
        What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
        ― Lord Byron, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

        • sorenbarrett

          L.B. your knowledge of poetry is overwhelming. I had not read this before and am humbled that my poor piece would be compared to it. I thank you so much for your most kind words.

        • Caring dove

          This is so nice ! Lovely poem

          Your last lines ‘ you only need to listen ‘ that’s very similar to what I wrote in my latest poem about birds

          Nature has so much to say ))

          • sorenbarrett

            Synchronicity, coincidence what ever you call it, it happens. So glad you liked it. Thank you so much for the review.



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