The sun is shining
The temperature is warm
So get out of that chair
It’s gotten impressionistically warn!
Time to get up, get out,
Put on your shoes and get on your way
I feel the energy
This is going to be a great day!
I go to my woods
I’m ready to walk
But then…I see a robin
Who seemed to want to talk.
So I sat on a stump
And chatted a bit
I have to admit
It felt good to sit.
But no! I’m here to get moving
Let’s get back up and go
Well…then I saw the creeping phlox
Putting on this incredible show
I had to take a moment
Just to enjoy it’s delicate charm
I felt that sitting just a bit
Wouldn’t do any harm
Then up I get. Time to go
I’m movin’ right along
Listening to the birds
Enjoying their individual song.
Oh… but wait,
There’s a willow just beginning to weep
How can I not take a moment
The power of this imagine so deep.
Then a waterfall reminded me
“Keep moving. Get on your way”
It was so loud and insistent
OK, OK, OK!
I’m walking,
I’m walking.
Working up a sweat
But then….
I saw the turtle and
That was
The end of it!
The turtle message is crystal clear
Slow down.
Savor all the little bits
And so I find a good log and…I sit!
The Photos are Mine. The Poem is Mine, but…
The title of the poem has a nod to Dr. Seuss. I just thought that was fun. So then I took pictures of things as I walked and really didn’t look at them closely until I brought them up on my computer. And then, there in the ripples of the water were two characters. I googled Dr. Seuss characters and Yertle the Turtle comes pretty close to the character on the left and although there were no particular dog characters that matched, there was an archived book that came out in July, 2015 that’s called “What Pet Shall I Get”. Dr. Seuss was a dog lover.
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