Autumn Dawn - East Haddam
by RC DeWinter
Title
Autumn Dawn - East Haddam
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting
Description
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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Christopher James
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Nominated for a Special Feature in the 1000 Views on 1 Image group. Lovely light in this beautiful forest scene, Gina ! l/fvtw
Mariola Bitner
Congratulations on your outstanding artwork! It has been chosen to be FEATURED in the group “500 VIEWS.”
Doug Kreuger
Gina, This artwork appears to to have been steeped in enchantment… I feel as though I am wistfully floating over this forest floor while reading your alluring description. L&F