Magpie # 188: A Tree on a Hill...

Mark A. Haley 2010 photo

Photo prompt presented by Tess Kincaid 

Poetry challenge by Magpie Tales

standing mid-ascent 

the sky reflects my mood

the impaled tree in the distance

stands alone, plowed through and indifferent

a huge, abandoned, empty water main pipe

indiscriminately dropped, splitting the tree

which simply adapted and grew around it

teaches lessons in it's silence

the open meadow is dry

over baked by the sun

many dying from lack of rain

it crunches beneath my feet

were these stone steps

laid to hush the sounds of loneliness?

so pilgrimages could be made

to the solitude of sitting beneath a tree?

the wind always finds me

on this hill of pondering thought

taunting me with wind whispers

or yelling with rumbling thunder

the effort is always rewarded

if nothing more 

than the example of determination

and steadfastness

the view gives insight

much appreciated 

by a familiar friend

even if it is a tree on a hill...

10-1-13 ©dkb