Have You Ever Stopped To Listen?
#2 of National Poetry Writing Month
Whimsical feel good poem I came up with while sitting at a park on a beautiful day a few weeks ago. Written for National Poetry Month.
Have you ever just sat still
and appreciated the beauty of nature?
Have you seen the sunlight dance across
the water like diamonds?
Sat and watched an eagle skim across
the waves to grab its next meal?
Walked past a field and paused a moment
to look out at the wildflowers now in bloom?
Have you ever pulled your mind away
from everything else around you...
and just listened?
To the wind in the trees.
To the birds singing in their branches.
To the waves washing in an out.
Have you ever stared up at a mighty
tree and wondered what stories it had to tell?
What wonders it had seen in the centuries since
it had first sprouted out of the ground?
Have you ever stared into the eyes of an animal
and seen a living soul staring back?
Have you ever stopped for just a moment
to realize the beauty that's all around you?
A beauty and magnificence that passes us
by each and every day without us realizing it?
Have you ever stopped to listen?