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| © M. Bednar photos |
Kerry presented the writers' group Imaginary Garden with Real Toads with three photos by talented poet/photographer Margaret Bednar, and I found it difficult to choose which picture to use as a prompt for my own poem. Kerry also featured one of Margaret's poems and it is lovely.
I finally decided to use two of her photos as inspiration, and to share this one of the leaf just because it is beautiful.
a room
plain and simple,
a window, three hooks
and a bed
was all the weary man wanted—
a place to lay his head.
food came
and he cleared his plate well,
slept between soft sheets,
then awakened when the sun
shone through
the treetops outside.
he yawned,
then stretched
and thought of his horse.
Sebastian would like to work here, too,
he decided:
a good ranch
with good people,
plain and simple.
