Saturday, November 14, 2009
Wild Geese Passing
Wild Geese Passing
Something about them,
the way they arc across the sky
in silhouetted ranks
as if for
a painting,
I think it is
their freedom,
palpable as the wind,
how they are unlinked from earth,
how they sail so easily
as if in another dimension
from one continent to the next,
not minding the distances,
the shifting currents of air,
not stopping
when one of their number
drops with fatigue,
or to graze in a different venue,
but moving ahead
with determined grace,
announcing their journey
with their own
unmistakable voices,
urging us also
to loosen our robes
and ascend,
join them
in their flight
to the lost paradise,
where they and we
once lived.
Dorothy Walters
November 12, 2009
(image found on Panhala site)
