Look at everything
placed along your path,
before your line of sight,
around you, surrounding you.
Escape from your home,
your work,
your car,
your phone!
Enter the wild woods and fields.
For an hour, leave your touch-screen
and touch green leaves.
Feel the minute hairs on the leaf,
the serrated edge, the slender petiole
connected to the twig of the branch;
branching from the trunk
that broke through the soil --
(50 years before television),
(90 years before internet) --
as a tiny shoot;
carrying hope
through its vessels,
and flowing with faith
for the future.
© 2019 Richard Havenga
Photo Locations:
1. & 2. Home Woods - Cannonsburg, Michigan
3. Fallasburg Park - Kent County - Michigan
4. Lowell Township - Kent County - Michigan
"... carrying hope through its vessels, and flowing with faith for the future." ~ from: "Carrying Hope" by Poet/Photographer Richard Havenga @ Walk With Father Nature: https://walkwithfathernature.blogspot.com/2019/07/carrying-hope.html
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