Sunday, October 10, 2021

Cretan Hills

Serenity permeates through the rustle of olive leaves:

This vista a sea of green eternity

fecund despite incessant aridity, 

lustrous in its rusticity.


This vantage burrows deep,

nourishing roots—

This earth is of you, and you of it.


Bones ache in recognition

seeking reunion with ancestral dust:

A call to harken home,

set aside the odyssey  

and reclaim the olive song 

chorusing a crescendo in the blood.


This transient hearthstone,

perennially in limbo,

settles familiarly within the loam,

sinking slowly back home.

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