Diatribe

“Underwater River Rocks” by Dixie Distefano

 

brooding stones suffer anger

ignored by the sun beneath waters

too rushed to give them a care

left to wallow in mud of neglect

all their prettiness lost to admiring

eyes of the world noticed only by

coldblooded philistine fish with

their miniscule brain-hearts too

full of themselves nothing left

but to wait for the next glacier

era to scrape them from dull

deep obscurity raising them back

to their freed rightful place among

nature’s own objets de vertu

derisively flaunting their sheer

indestructible lifeless antiquity

mocking pathetic mortality

walking the crests of creation

 

 

From my book Bohemian Scents

Erratics

Granite Glacial Erratics at Home on a Farm – photo by Jack McConnell

they walked a long way to find sunshine

escaping from frigid hard whiteness

for warm soft embrace of the greensward

old souls of stone who remember creation

immigrants holding their alien dignity

standing their ground against xenophobe

cries of uncomfortable winds with their

freehold convictions of personal liberty

handsome with self-possessed strength

pleased to anchor an everlast change to

traditional notions of peaceful community

Diatribe

“Underwater Stones” by Lorenzo – from Pinterest

 

brooding stones suffer anger
ignored by the sun beneath waters
too rushed to give them a care
left to wallow in mud of neglect
all their prettiness lost to admiring
eyes of the world noticed only by
coldblooded philistine fish with
their miniscule brain-hearts too
full of themselves nothing left
but to wait for the next glacier
era to scrape them from dull
deep obscurity raising them back
to their freed rightful place among
nature’s own objets de vertu
derisively flaunting their sheer
indestructible lifeless antiquity
mocking pathetic mortality
walking the crests of creation