Poetry
Related: About this forumPoem (prose?) about my surprise 3 a.m. visitor!
SPRING VISITOR
The dinner guest arrived late.
No invitation.
No reservations.
Alone.
Just newly awake,
belly growling with
a devastating hunger.
Drawn here
by a free meal,
easy,
high in calories.
A good deal.
He almost got away with it
but for a soft noise.
3 a.m. is the witching hour.
I look out.
Is he even real?
or a supernatural specter?
To Native Americans
he is a spiritual guide.
To Robert Frost
a being that roams wide:
The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me.
Ursa Major dominates the spring skies.
The Big Dipper, a guide.
Under the stars, to my bruin friend,
I whisper safely abide.
I will listen to the DEC officers
and take the bird feeders
down until fall.
When Frost writes you will next again
rock a boulder on the wall.
Karadeniz
(23,544 posts)cyclonefence
(4,893 posts)RSherman
(576 posts)Waterguy
(278 posts)I just know it when
there is a bear there
they could be anything they want to be
when they just show up out of the blue
thinnest of all air.
They still is a bear
like a good poem, so unrehearsed!
What the hell,
the big old boy saw the need
just to be there,
he said