Item Icon
\"Reading Printer Friendly Page Tell A Friend
★★★★★ (3)
Rated: E · Poetry · Philosophy · #759029

written on retreat at Gethsemane Trappist Monastery

Rooted Things

'Tis the rooted things withstanding
the tugging, wayward wind,
while those that break away so free
fly, yes, but powerless,
fettered by wind's whimsy
'til cast carelessly away
and trapped in mire and mud
or trampled underfoot,
at last in swampy prison held
to dream of rooted days.
© Copyright 2003 Lobelia is truly blessed (mamahobbit at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Writing.Com, its affiliates and syndicates have been granted non-exclusive rights to display this work.