Triumphantly
Returns
The King
As waged war

Reminisced
Into history
Battles of foreground
Play out

Like the moss
That covers
Entire forests of
Sacred enchantment

As Druids
Watched trees
Burned down
In lore of the mythic

Fairies diminished
Once flourished
Serpentine
Creatures

Moved like
Leaves
On fire
Acreage

Stalling man
From secret
Oaks
Stand so tall

Looking up
And looking up
Miles could not
Touch cloudy skies

In daylight
Surrounded
These trees
Bare witness

To all the ages
As an ornithologist
Spectate
Upon songbirds

In willows and
Migrate
During
Winter

Hibernation
Of swallows
Watching bears
Hunt the night

Appease prominent
Branched arms
Reach out
Over snow landscapes

Covering life
With its nature
Protecting innocence
Hovering

An impossible
Fulcrum
The whole
In each hand

08/15/2009

Posted on 01/12/2010
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