Best (Free) Seats at the Opera

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Reader ‘Sahira’ has kindly been in touch to say how much she especially enjoys my nature poems. Many thanks for that, encouragement always gratefully received. Sahira has also asked for more information about the Cheddar Gorge after viewing the videos posted on my You Tube Channel + poems: http://www.youtube.com/rogerNtaber

(Click on ‘browse videos’ and scroll to Cheddar Gorge clips 1, 2, and 3.)

More about the Cheddar Gorge on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Gorge

Meanwhile…

Today's poem has been significantly revised since its last appearance on the blog in March 2011 while (hopefully) giving the reader food for thought regarding our relationship with nature, for better or worse. We have not been kind to nature nor is nature always kind to us, yet together we make a good team. Could it be that we are not so different after all, but two sides of the same life-force?

BEST (FREE) SEATS AT THE OPERA 

Music in the air, timeless songs

we only ever hear

for listening out for birds, bees,

and summer showers

wherever tree-ushers gesture

mind-body-spirit takes its place

in the front row

Though humankind try to copy,

modify or destroy,

it can but fail to silence songs

Earth Mother teaches

her children from seedlings

(if never on time at rehearsals)

for the Opera of Life

Lights down, only Pan’s pipes

keeping us reflective

until the next act begins. puts us

through our paces,

gives imagination its head,

as per  humanity’s predilection

for performance art

Though we be deaf, blind, dumb,

the Spirit of Nature 

can be felt and passed on by all,

come the sun by day 

or the moon by night, if only

for treading footprints of live clay

left by dead poets

Copyright R. N. Taber 2010; 2018

[Note: An earlier version of this poem appears in On the Battlefields of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2010]