North Carolina Poetry Society
 
Student Poem of the Month — August 2007
 

 
Nature's Perplexity   © by   Christy Vaughn


Winding through a forest
I see tiny creatures
Hiding from predators,
And a variety of plants and trees
In a habitat that forms a painting
More beautiful than we
Could ever paint.

Forests can comfort anyone
And in the forest it feels to me
That I fit in a forest story:
I am a hummingbird
Who flies above the canopy,
Rests in branches of an oak,
Watches other animals
Hide below in tunnels
Of forest green.

Time passes.
The forest grows
Becoming a library
Where answers to life’s questions
Might be.

Trees stretch up.
Forests expand and become
More perplexed than an algorithm.

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Previously published in the North Carolina Poetry Society's
Pinesong: Awards 2007. Used with permission of the Poet.
NOTICE: The copyright © for this poem belongs to the Poet.

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