Oh! to wander the fields wild and free,
To commune with wild nature,
Her beauty everywhere extant.
Tender lullabye and song in forested glade,
A still peace this sacred moment:
The profound silence: holy echo of dream, every hope;
Melodies of heart and soul;
Rhythms, memory and wonder in a windrift calm,
Tree and bough, moment of a joyous uplift
Forested cathedrals, great songs of heart and mind,
All the majesty: a windstorm day in fierce call and cry
Whisper and sigh midst far tossed leaf and bough…
Promise and a grace filled endurance
All the beauty flame interior universes:
A captive soul set free.
NINA MUNTEANU is a Canadian ecologist / limnologist and novelist. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto. Visit www.ninamunteanu.ca for the latest on her books. Nina’s bilingual “La natura dell’acqua / The Way of Water” was published by Mincione Edizioni in Rome. Her non-fiction book “Water Is…” by Pixl Press(Vancouver) was selected by Margaret Atwood in the New York Times ‘Year in Reading’ and was chosen as the 2017 Summer Read by Water Canada. Her novel “A Diary in the Age of Water” was released by Inanna Publications (Toronto) in June 2020.
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