An Enchanted Poem

My mother was a poet. She had a way with words. Her specialty was haiku. She had many hundreds of haiku poems published.

The following poem was not written by her. It was written by Marguerite B. Palmer. I don't know who she was or if she wrote anything else, but my mother loved this poem. It articulates many of the same sentiments evident in my mother's haikus. I present it here for your enjoyment.

The Enchanted Wood

By Marguerite B. Palmer

There was a strange enchantment on the wood:
A transient rain had beaded Queen Anne's lace
And pearled the matted grasses where we stood.
There was a jeweled look about the place.

Translucent amber glistened on the pines
Whose branches hid unnumbered singing birds;
Diamonds were caught in spiderwebs and vines.
There was a magic that eluded words.

So we were silent from the moment when
We found a jade-touched stone on which to sit
And memorize it all, for even then
We knew that we could not go back to it.

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One of my favourite poems is "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Do you have a favourite poem? One perhaps that you've memorized? Or just one that, when you read it, it speaks to your heart and you know that it's true.

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