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Just the Usual
by Ronald A PavellasOn my walk up the nearby hill yesterday morning I saw:
- The road lined with the multicolored flowers of wild radish, huge dandelion leaves, broad-leaf grasses of intense green, juicy milkweeds
- A white-tailed kite hovering over meadows of rippling, bright-yellow wild mustard flowers.
- Huge black crows wheeling overhead
- Red-wing blackbirds chattering and jumping from shrub to fence-post
- Oaks, scorched from last season's fires, leafing anew
- Great turkey vultures circling, above all else
- No patch of bare earth: shrubs and grasses and other plants of all shades of green flowing, mingling together: Nature's luscious salad.
- Myriad small flowers of many hues attached to stems of plants for which I have no name
- The slanting sun throwing its welcome heat through the thin clouds and foggy haze
Just the usual.
03/22/1998 Posted on 01/03/2002
Copyright © 2024 Ronald A Pavellas
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 01/05/06 at 03:04 AM Nature's luscious salad - amen. What a great line! I can't believe people haven't read and rated your Nature poems. Being new to Pathetic I am browsing randomly. So happy to find your collections. "Just the usual" is terrific. We take so much for granted.
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