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This week at HighCallingBlogs.om, our culture post is about poetry that really catches the details of life.
I was going to hold this poem for submission somewhere like Image, but I’m not very patient about submissions. And I really don’t like getting rejections from my friends there.
So here’s my offering to HighCallingBlogs.com:
As the Deer
We owe it to each other
to share what white tail already know.
When the pressure changes, they run
together, hooves clacking across asphalt
then silent on the dewy lawns.
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silent on the dewy lawns…
i can see this
Thanks, Nancy! I was just describing what I often see in my front yard.
They run together, like a herd of deer… or colors on a palate… beautiful.
If it was a passage in Psalms, I suppose we could craft an entire sermon around this poem. I am curious what exactly you meant by this particular phrase:”When the pressure changes, they run together..”
I am not yet sure what it means to me. And that is the beauty of this poem!
I’m glad you were impatient enough to post it today.
Bradley, I was thinking of barometric pressure. Animals seem to understand it on a level that we humans have forgotten. But I was being intentionally metaphoric–or trying to be at any rate.
I like the clacking on asphalt image, people in your neighbourhood
this is the scary part about the deer: “hooves clacking across asphalt” because they often do not make it ….especially the ones that are left behind the group
sojourner, that part is pretty scary for those of us driving on the asphalt too!
your placing of the word “together” at the start of the sentence is pivotal for me. it reminds me that team work is ultimately what makes for success.
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