REVERIE POEM 4

Nature, love and happiness! I am at my best on a hike or immersed in nature - the blood rushes around your body as you pant from running up the hill and the vista reminds you of the perspective you can have.

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"Live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." Henry David Thoreau

Traipsing

Traipsing along the path

We came to no view

But each other

The sun shone

And life began anew

Here was something

That I knew.

Continuing along the stony trail

We tripped and stumbled

the path seemed never-ending

But the crunch and the smells

Of pleasant water and sweet-acrid

Green sustained us.

The book in my bag grew heavy

A clearing dense and heavy

Came to view

Throwing the packs down

We became anew in our love

Throwing remembrances around

We found our exact copy

There within

Live was not thin, it was thick.

"Our task must be to free ourselves ... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace al living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." Albert Einstein

The longing to be part of something is in most of us. We are part of something if we look around and see our friends in nature and animals. I enjoy living in the town but I must say that the very best times I have are usually surrounded by the countryside - even our meals taste better having had a good walk!