Monday, February 17, 2014

a chapel prayer closet

Maybe too small for the image
A cathedral of pine
The sky the vaulted ceiling
No buttressed on the side
Maybe more a chapel
A prayer closet for one
Hidden from the roadside
Separated for love

On a floor of needles and leaves
Hidden within the lush branches
Cloistered from the world
I sat in a cathedral of pine
Five trees encircled my prayer
Limbs knitted like arms
wrapped around my reverie.
Walled off from the world around me

Watched only by squirrels,
By the young lady slippers, the ferns,
Birds, salamanders, insects,
The other denizens of the
Small island in the lake
A hidden sanctuary for one
Ringed by lady slippers, ferns,
High and low-bush blueberry plants

A stillness in the chaos
Of that strange summer
Somewhere to ponder, reflect,
Slow down and commune
With the hand of the creator
By the still, calm lake.
A chapel, a prayer closet
Separated for love

edited December 26, 2014
a chapel prayer closet – v3
(editing version 2 and original version)
edited February 23, 2014
“a chapel prayer closet – v2”
edited/new poem February 17, 2014
“a chapel prayer closet
edited February 11, 2014
“A Cathedral of Pine – v3”
(editing the original again)
Edited May 4, 2013
“A Cathedral of Pine – v2”
November 4, 2005
 “A Cathedral of Pine”


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