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| credit: Jennie Hart |
Dragon-like the River Neckar
Whips its tail in taunting style
Tearing off the budded branches
Wrenching out the tangled roots
From the flooded riverside
Angry bullish threatening hostile
The river’s mood feels dissolute
Turner with his artist’s eye and palette
Paints the Neckar river flowing smoothly
He captures too in warm red hues
The sandstone castle on the hill
A formidable creation
Part destroyed but part rebuilt
Reflecting tastes of former generations
Along the water’s edge, a garden snail
Glides along on mottled leaves of ivy
Its horns protrude
A long pair bearing eyes
A short pair aiding sense of smell and
touch
A gastropod it revels in the wetness
Joyful in its slippery slimy journey
A lifestyle never changing very much
Smooth bark of beech trees shines
translucent
Catching sunbeams as they flicker
Through the water-loaded branches
Weighed down by leaves that shake and
shudder
In the deluge that’s incessant
On the raging muddy river
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| credit: Jennie Hart |
3 comments:
A load of luscious images, you even find some sympathy with the snail and the rain.
I am quite fond of Gastropods!
I like the idea of the flooding river as a dragon, and the contrast of the power of water and the detail of little snail. A gardener would absolutely notice that snail 🐌 I quite like snails too...when I was a teacher, I used to breed them in the classroom 🐌😊
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