Double "Not"

Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything. - Thoreau

hardly what you'd call lame

this sneaker-less river that runs past me

sweating last week's snow

shaking off yesterday's rain

carrying a sleepy town's sins and pain

all remnants and traces

challenging me to a race of disdain

i'd best just leave it be

at least until i have a chance to bend down and tie my laces

Author's Note

"He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea." - Thoreau

Reviews

[AJNJ]

A very watery day but something unusual stirs me up. Is that nature shedding many tears? We never can say. Sad poem.....

[Patricia Wedel]

It’s a long way to Tipperary in my mind with falling leaves and Winter Snow that brings Blossoms of Hope and Reverie… We have the Rappahannock River where Eagles Nest along the Crest of History…. gently, Pat

[Pete]

we have the assabet river with its protected wildlife refuge - turtles, hawks, coyote, red fox ... :)