Working Sounds – Nature Shares Her Music
On earth we live with working sounds
Some tympanic; a few dynamic
The roar of the surf crashing over and over
Hardened walls of the cliffs of Dover
Echoes reverberating on the shoreline
Sweet songs of the turbulent seas
Shrill tweets and whistles, of birds unseen
Further inland there’s so many more
Leaves rustling high above and down below
The piercing bugle of mountain elk
Screeching eagles and red-tailed hawks
Vibrations of the cicada and cricket songs
Whispered rustling of the prairie grasses
Rocks sliding in the high mountains
Bubbling and gurgling ice cold streams
Carefully feeding the rushing waterfalls
Overhead the lightning flashes warning
A low deep rumbling spreads across the land
Building strength until it erupts
Thundering like ancient titanic clashes
And the momentary sounds of silence
Shattered by the pitter pat of rain
Gradual at first until one drop is many
Cleansing everything in a glorious deluge
Then the great settling of the fallen
Branches cracking and mud sliding
Low croaking of frogs and toads
Hummingbird wings and turtledove coos
Shifting desert sands moving with the wind
Grains of sand rising and falling in unison
Rippling with a symphonic complexity
Giant glaciers calving into the open ocean
Tumultuous bellowing splashes roar
While the cold carries an infinite message
Howling winds and driving snow
Hollow tones with a haunting richness
Distant roar of a camouflaged bear
Colliding ice flows and barking seal pups
A sighing breeze in the mountain pines
And more and more and so many more
Here and there, everywhere and anywhere
Working sounds of the world around
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Wow ! Great piece, Ralph. Uplifting and glorious. You put me in another, and wonderful place, soaring around Earth listening to the sounds of Nature. Remarkable penning that bring the sounds alive to open ears and the spirit. Beautiful work.
Such vivid imagery in a wonderfully constructed poem describing the beauties of nature. Good work Ralph.
The living earth, a cacophany of sound all of which gives such scope to our living experience. Nice work Ralph.