Autumn Dawn - East Haddam

by RC DeWinter

Title

Autumn Dawn - East Haddam

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting

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Copyright 2014 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

dawn walk

couldn't sleep
didn't want tv
after a restless hour or so
i got up and dressed in the dark

fall is coming on fast
i layered on enough to keep warm
and stepped out
into the almost dawn

i had no idea where i was going
no plan
i just wanted to walk
in a world still sleeping

my thoughts still whirled
i'd hoped that getting out
and breathing lungfuls
of clean crisp air might cleanse me

it wasn't until i walked
into the druid cathedral
the sacred space of trees
that a bit of peace descended

their greenness
barely brushed by autumn's paint
reminded me of love
for green is love's color

and there's a man -
but isn't there always?
but i didn't come here
to think of that

if there's one thing I've learned
it's that love takes care of itself
in my case generally by taking
a sharp left in another direction

no i came for the stillness
i came for dawn light
I came for the crunch of the forest
under my feet

suddenly the path opened
into a small clearing
graveyard to a tree despoiled
and left to rot

i wondered why anyone
would take down a tree
and in a place where we heat with wood
leave so much behind

it seems to be the way of the world
we claim things and people for our own
and then surfeited or bored
walk away leaving a train wreck

the gold of morning poured in
filtered by frills of leaves
with no awareness of
their coming mortality

and sitting on that earthbound tree
i gazed up to heaven
through the canopy of green
and wished i had no knowledge of my own

i have too much yet to say
reparations to be paid
i have too much yet to do
wild sweet loving to be made
~ copyright 2014 RC deWinter

Shafts of autumn dawn sunlight illuminate a clearing in a forest in East Haddam, Connecticut.

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