Bowing to Earth
Maya Ellenson likes to improvise in zen poetry as she basks in Florida's parks and wildlife.
Sandhill Cranes
Nature's suspense
Sandhill cranes
landing on the parking lot
pavement
connecting up and down
fox tail palms
swinging over
grayness
of a sidewalk
nonchalant with all its blisters
raindrops sliding
on the palm’s smooth leaves
bowing to Earth
suspended
In the Parking Lot
Cranes posing
Comments
Maya Ellenson (author) from Hobe Sound, Florida on October 06, 2018:
Lora, thanks a lot for reading and your kind, insightful comment!
Lora Hollings on October 06, 2018:
I really like your poem, Maya. I like the style that you use and the way the poem flows.
The poem seems to be intimating that nature is more enduring than structures build by mankind and there’s a consciousness about nature as well, particularly shown in this line, "on the palm’s smooth leaves bowing to earth.” Thank you for writing it and I loved the pictures of the beautiful Sandhill cranes too.
Maya Ellenson (author) from Hobe Sound, Florida on October 05, 2018:
Thank you so much for your precious comment!
Sincerely,
Maya
Tim Truzy from U.S.A. on October 05, 2018:
What a great work demonstrating our need to recognize and love our planet, much as majestic cranes do. Even as we utilize cranes to go higher and higher with our endeavors in concrete and steel, it is Earth we stand upon. It is our parking lot because we have yet to fly any place else despite our drive.
Beautiful.
Much respect,
Sincerely,
Tim