Reason 2 Rhyme – “Letter to the Landscape” poetry challenge/prompt

Here’s your Reason 2 Rhyme for the week…

Write a letter to a landscape or scene you pass through today (or often). For example, “Dear Williamsburg Bridge,…”

I thought this was an interesting challenge, since it forces us to take a new look at familiar landmarks or scenes we might take for granted.  Here’s my point of view on the view from my kitchen window…

Ozark Pond

The distance between us is ever the same

I stand

Fixed

While you wax and wane

Fickle as the moon.

 

As a lover, flush with money

You treat me to green banks

and rippling waters.

But only in the good times.

 

Now, the drought dries up your bounty,

No raining paychecks from the sky.

The scummy skin of deprivation

Stagnating

You shrink into yourself.

 

I wait for the coming change

and the day you will reach for me again.

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