The Green Man
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:23 am
He speaks for the uprooted.
A man of sorts, a twiggy Buddha.
He who interprets
the conferences of frogs,
the unpublished works
of kestrels and voles.
He’s an advocate for the underbellies
of microbial heavens, for every kind
of uncouth animalcule.
Ancient is he, yet as fresh as tomorrow,
in green ponds he fishes for sunlight.
He plumps grassy pillows,
quilts nests for the slumbering and slippery,
gardens all the dewy meadows.
He speaks for the bulldozed,
the displaced, the native and
nomadic. He sweeps clean
the muddy tracks of iron caterpillars.
Bears report of matters suburban,
of backyard foraging,
of prime swimming pools;
the choicest trash-can finds.
There must be a treaty.
Kits and coyote love him,
whistle-Pigs trumpet his approach.
Ducks quack his many sermons:
may shotguns always misfire.
He is a preacher,
a teacher to tic and turtle,
a bosky fellow, not a straw man,
or hollow but verdant,
a green man for me and thee
harken do to his leafy lingo
for tomorrow he may be but a scarecrow
in a long ravaged field.
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A man of sorts, a twiggy Buddha.
He who interprets
the conferences of frogs,
the unpublished works
of kestrels and voles.
He’s an advocate for the underbellies
of microbial heavens, for every kind
of uncouth animalcule.
Ancient is he, yet as fresh as tomorrow,
in green ponds he fishes for sunlight.
He plumps grassy pillows,
quilts nests for the slumbering and slippery,
gardens all the dewy meadows.
He speaks for the bulldozed,
the displaced, the native and
nomadic. He sweeps clean
the muddy tracks of iron caterpillars.
Bears report of matters suburban,
of backyard foraging,
of prime swimming pools;
the choicest trash-can finds.
There must be a treaty.
Kits and coyote love him,
whistle-Pigs trumpet his approach.
Ducks quack his many sermons:
may shotguns always misfire.
He is a preacher,
a teacher to tic and turtle,
a bosky fellow, not a straw man,
or hollow but verdant,
a green man for me and thee
harken do to his leafy lingo
for tomorrow he may be but a scarecrow
in a long ravaged field.
~~~~~~~~~
https://otherworldlyoracle.com/green-ma ... ghtings/[b][/b]