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Stone Wall & Heath [241]

Stone Wall & Heath

         for Petra

Give us a chance;
we'll paint your sorrows six shades of green,
a gift of a soft day of mists and rainbows,
each bruise healed with moss,
each crack fused with a nest for flowers,
blue and pink greeting the gull-filled sky.
Abandoned corners provide a refuge from wind
where woolly sheep snuggle against raw cold.
Hear how they bleat, beckoning you
to stumble across these fields of rock,
clamber over these walls of stone
graced with golden gorse.
Let your fingers trace the landscape's inscription
as the last rays of sunset guide your way.

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.241] (26.septembre.2021)

14 lines free verse
Sent on a postcard "Stone Wall & Heath, Co Down, © Tom Quinn Kumpf