Forests Are a Glimpse of Permanence

September 14, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is innocence.

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A number poem about the sense of lost innocence one associates with unspoiled nature:

Forests are a glimpse of permanence.
One walks within the hush of their embrace
Restored to a more humble sense of place,
Taking time to yield to reverence.
Yearning spills out into sentient space.

There is in forests an abiding sense,
Well worth saving, of lost innocence,
One's shrinking heritage of nature's grace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/forest.html. For more poems about the environment, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/environmentalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Innocence
September 14: Forests Are a Glimpse of Permanence