Maybe too small for the
image
A grand cathedral of pine
The five trees in the circle
The sky the vaulted ceiling
No buttresses 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
dust
Hidden within the lush
branches
Deep in the heat of summer
Cloistered from the world
I sat in a solitary cathedral
of pine
Five trees encircled my
prayer
Limbs knitted like arms
Holding me closer
Wrapped around my reverie.
Walled off from the world
around me
Watched only by squirrels,
By the young lady slippers,
the ferns,
The emerging blueberry
bushes
Birds, salamanders, insects,
The other denizens of the
Small one-acre island in the
lake
A hidden sanctuary for one
Ringed by the hemlocks, the
firs,
The high and low-bush blueberry
plants
A stillness in the chaos
Of that strange summer long
ago
Somewhere to ponder,
reflect,
Slow down and commune
With the hand of the creator
By the still, calm waters of
the lake.
A chapel, a prayer closet
Separated for love
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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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