Kilroy Was Here

We can never have enough of Nature because Nature is not something to have — it is something we are. - Thoreau

in the cool of eventide

'pon my bike on the old, paved-over rail trail littered with acorns on which i travel

i pass through pristine woods

where the silence is earsplitting

as played out rays of sun sashay between guileless trees

a treacly aroma induces olfactory pleasures

somewhere nearby must be a patch of wild berries, maybe grapevines bearing their late summer bounty

old, moss-covered, stone walls mark the spent claims of men long since laid to rest and now fertilizer

lillypads float innocently in the wetlands

where a majestic egret is dining leisurely

frogs warming up for an evening serenade

a farm's field holds summer's last crop

the air so fresh it almost breathes itself

there is an inexplicable presence here

a quiet power

an aura of virgin innocence

divinity if you will

could this be a taste of eden

it sure seems to fit the bill

regardless, i'll be back this way again tomorrow

for yet another thrill

never quite able to get my fill

.

Author's Note

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

Description and appreciation abound in this well executed poem. I think when we are in nature, it fills the loss we incurred by our ancestors; it is like in our DNA.
I love parks in general and especially National parks.

[Ken Simm.]

I fit my thoughts so well with this. With what I see and feel every day now. Excellently well written.

[Pete]

thank you ken. you are clearly a man who knows and appreciates the magnificence of nature.