There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
Written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this poem appears in It's Just a Phase.
Advice in Time of Plague
Do not Abandon all hope ye who enter here
nor let the weight of current events crush your soul.
Mourn what is lost, but not too long.
Crush the hurdle of despair and
the dark thoughts lurking there.
Pitch a tent near cool mountain streams.
Lay spoil to grim demeanor and resurrect hope.
Revel in the comedy of a fence lizard's display.
Delight in wild violets and trout lilies.
Never forget you are called to live.
I cannot live without wild things. None of us can. It's just that some know it and some don't.
Gorgeous, Ray. And a mention of one of my favorite places, Edisto. Count me in as one who cannot live without wild things, including grasshoppers and hornets as well as whales and wolves.
Written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this poem appears in It's Just a Phase.
Advice in Time of Plague
Do not Abandon all hope ye who enter here
nor let the weight of current events crush your soul.
Mourn what is lost, but not too long.
Crush the hurdle of despair and
the dark thoughts lurking there.
Pitch a tent near cool mountain streams.
Lay spoil to grim demeanor and resurrect hope.
Revel in the comedy of a fence lizard's display.
Delight in wild violets and trout lilies.
Never forget you are called to live.
I cannot live without wild things. None of us can. It's just that some know it and some don't.
Gorgeous, Ray. And a mention of one of my favorite places, Edisto. Count me in as one who cannot live without wild things, including grasshoppers and hornets as well as whales and wolves.