Deep inside these woods
The leaves of green and gold
Reflect upon my mind
The stillness of the lake
Not filling up with cloudy snow
No path grassy, wanting wear
No path’s leaves, untrodden black
I stop regardless as the sun shines through
[I turn towards my back
Not able to go back
The time for turning back
It has long since past]
For a moment there was silence
Before the blowing wind
Moves upon the water
The waves upon my soul
I looked her in the eyes
As she stood there in my view
Unknowing of the reason
I found her [she found me] there that day
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Woah…It still amazes me how my brain ends up putting some of these things together. I don’t say that in a way that means that I think my poetry is just that good (although I obviously do haha) It’s just that a lot of times when I write poetry it comes out in a stream of consciousness kind of way and when my brain feels it just was put through some sort of intense MacGyver last minute paperclip bomb diffusing situation.
This was no exception to that trend. With this one I started off with the lines “I looked her in the eyes as she stood there in my view”, all the while I had this urge to write about nature. I thought about a horse, and stopping in the wood, looking it in the eyes and wrote a line about not being able to turn back… but then I just started from the top, the lines just came out. I had stanza’s 1, 2, and 4 in place (which at the time was 1, 2, and 3), and although I felt like it could end there I really wanted to use that first line. I read it again and it took on a whole new meaning and just fit. I wrote the final 2 lines…. and then I got greedy and tried to squeeze in my line about turning back. I had already used the work back, and I thought my mind had just popped out some smooth rhyming scheme where all the words were almost the same, but once I read it it sounded like Dr. Seuss! (not that there’s anything wrong with that… it just wasn’t what I was going for). So if you are reading this thanks… and if you take out that third stanza, don’t worry I won’t hold it against you! 