Jun 2019
I have come to walk
among mountains,
meander among
meadows, sit among
clusters of wildflowers.
I have come to taste
the sweetness of blue
air, red skies, the orange
of the sun. I embrace
the fullness of rivulets
and streams. I eschew
silence and shadows:
I listen to and watch
monarchs flutter their
golden wings. All this
I soak into my soul.
Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
among mountains,
meander among
meadows, sit among
clusters of wildflowers.
I have come to taste
the sweetness of blue
air, red skies, the orange
of the sun. I embrace
the fullness of rivulets
and streams. I eschew
silence and shadows:
I listen to and watch
monarchs flutter their
golden wings. All this
I soak into my soul.
Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
