Skip to content
Menu
Postcards from the Age of Reason
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
Postcards from the Age of Reason

Prairie Morn

Posted on April 2, 2022April 2, 2022

Prairie Morn

by LlamaMama

Rectangular Angus
Silhouettes stand still
On bluff’s brow, black
Against frozen horizon’s
Sunrise pastels.

Twisted trees bow
Stiffly, graciously:
Aged gentlemen
In dusty disguise.
Grass gesticulates
In perpetual dance;
Oil rigs slowly nod
Heavy heads, like large,
Sagacious mantises.

One wee sparrow chirps,
Then another
Takes up the tune;
No dawning day lacks
Their merry greeting:
Morning mercies,
Creator’s gentle gift
In fragile birdsong.

Arm over arm,
Steel giants swim
Synchronized
In heights of blue,
Shred clouds to thin ribbons
In silence.
They pause,
Then lift their arms anew,
Surrendered to caprices
Of wind;

Wind that would rather slap
With frosty fingers
Than caress the face;
Nature’s impish child:
Feral, fierce,
Reluctant to rest.

Cracked asphalt road
Bends round, wraps over
Parched prairie hills
Like a weathered
Garden hose tossed
Carelessly
Onto yellow backyard grass.

4 thoughts on “Prairie Morn”

  1. Elaine Ash says:
    April 2, 2022 at 10:08 pm

    Very nice. The pictures go beautifully with the prose.

    Reply
  2. Silent Draco says:
    April 3, 2022 at 8:21 am

    Very nice free verse. You painted and sang a pretty rich scene in the stanzas. I can about hear the sparrows squabbling about which verdant-fingered limb gets their nest.

    Reply
  3. LlamaMama says:
    April 3, 2022 at 11:08 am

    Thanks, kind friends! After all the songwriting our fam has been doing together, I found it such a relief to try something that didn’t require rhyme or exact meter. I’m not really the free-verse-writing type (though I like reading it), so this was a fun experiment.

    Reply
  4. Liberta1787 says:
    April 4, 2022 at 8:06 pm

    That is lovely, LlamaMama! Beautiful imagery.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • What It Means To Be An American
  • Chapter 5, Part 1 – Visitations and Wonders
  • Chapter 4, Part 2 – The Healing of Lórien
  • Chapter 4, Part 1 – The Healing of Lórien
  • Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy

Recent Comments

  1. GCM on Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy
  2. Concisor on Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy
  3. GCM on Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy
  4. Concisor on Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy
  5. GCM on Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy

Archives

  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021

Categories

  • Anime
  • Art
  • Bible
  • Book Reviews
  • Books
  • Childbirth
  • Christianity
  • Comics
  • Crime
  • Culture
  • Dating
  • Entertainment Reviews
  • Faith
  • Fan Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Flora and Fauna
  • Gaming
  • Homesteading
  • Humor
  • Interview
  • Mystery
  • Opinion
  • Personal Experience
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Recipes
  • Review
  • Romance
  • Sci-Fi
  • Science
  • Scripture
  • Short Story
  • SSH
  • Supernatural
  • Suspense
  • Topical and Timely
  • Uncategorized
  • Veteran
  • Vignette
  • War
©2025 Postcards from the Age of Reason | Powered by SuperbThemes