Sun shining on magnificent green trees
Outlined against a background of blue.
Branches swaying gracefully in the breeze
Lush greenery shields my eyes from sordid city view.
This side of my ravine, mercifully shielded from the sight,
Is magically protected from the city’s sadder song
Of dismal, cracked, concrete signs of urban blight
And architecture gone terribly wrong.
From my humble oasis midst the barren and the bleak,
I cast my eyes above the colorless and the unadorned.
My soul finds the splendor of nature that I seek,
And I rise above the abandoned and forlorn.
©Lynn Ross
7/6/10
