Sunday, November 20, 2022

The Forest Rests

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Dusk's soft grey entrance has tamed the wind's

raging tantrum, the signal for nature's elements

to recede and set aside their querulous 

misgivings over haphazard signals given the

day now at rest and so must they. The forest sighs

its relief as the atmosphere stills and settles.

Its canopy dishevelled by broken boughs and

cracked bark littering the forest floor's fresh

fallen comforter from last night's snowfall. 

The silhouette of gaunt trees shed of their glory

loom against an imminently-abandoned sky

the luminous ball of the sun retreating over the

horizon. A faint murmur of birds nesting for the

night, and soon the dark cloak of night descends.

 

 

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