Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Poetry from the book {Bunny Hop} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

Wednesday June 19, 1991 Lime Springs to Lansing Iowa Upper Iowa River, Mississippi River


         Eighteen days and the journey ends


           Well how do you feel my friend


      Being on that water wheel is a great ride


Betrayed, trust, tired, hurt, hiding in the greenery


The navigation channel is not the river, the backwaters are the flow


Anything between the mountains is the Mississippi


                 The glory is the sun (Helios)


                   The trees cry out for rain


An eagle feather spirals down from the clouds and lands on the boat


The owl talks, the great blue heron scoops up a fish


       Tom cats swimming among the stumps


Fishermen sitting slumped in their boats under the sun, waiting for that fish to hit their lure


These people are proudly naked to the world


People that love the human society of chit chat


When I am on the water I am the ocean, I am loved.

 

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