I came across a friend on a social networking site the other day who is passionate about a great many things. One of them is the wolf. Rhonda wrote a poem about the wolf and with her permission I have reproduced it here.
You can find other works by Rhonda on her Author’s Den site
She begins her peom by telling us why she is writing it. Rhonda says:
Today, Tuesday June 27 2006, I use the wolf in my poem because it is an endangered species also. Especially in Wyoming, Idaho & Alaska. Their slaughter is never ending & sad. Who are we to say that they don’t have a right to live? This poem is about us all living together…with respect for the other.
Now for the poem.
Abiding Together
by Rhonda Marie Ledbetter Hayman
Cloud’s hide the sun this day
Sun rays shoot out anyway
All as the sun lowers to touch
the mountain tops
Such beauty causes her breath to stop
As she sits there on a pasture so
grassy green
He walks up completely unseen
His massive shadow envelopes her
His love and safety is here to conquer
His massiveness is not scary
She has no reason to be wary
As he sits beside her on the green
Stretching out legs so lean
She touches his hand and whispers of the beauty before them
Long grasses, high mountains with tall trees and beautiful flowers
with thorny stems
They sit together watching
the moon rise
As wolves begin their cries
They sit unafraid as the wolf begins
it nightly roam
It’s not them he’s after as long
as they give him some room
Beauty is all around
It speaks with & without a sound
Man and woman in the
mist of the wild
Creatures and wilderness they
must protect like a child
It is serene today
Let’s not let it be taken away
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WOW….