Sunday, February 10, 2008

Redwood

Towering giants surround you
The wind whispers to you
You lay down on a bed of leaves as soft
As the down from a mother goose
The wind whispers to you one more time as if
Trying to tell you a secret, you fall asleep

1 comment:

LCM said...

Noah!

so glad that you shared this poem.

I like it a lot, for several reasons:

one--you have some very good images, which I think always makes a poem much more interesting and inticing. I especially love the opening "towering giants" and "down from a mother goose." Which leads me to my next point--there are many other sensory aspects to this poem--the feeling of the soft leaves, the sounds of the wind whispering, etc. All of these really bring us into the poem, almost as if we are there.

I also really like that it sort of tells a story--or at least begs the reader to ask why this person is in the woods, falling asleep, or if there's some secret in that wind whispering. It's sort of mysterious, and I really like it a lot. :) Nice. VERY nice!!! :)