Island Yearning

Island Yearning

Denman Island

You hold my Heart

In the Depth & Width

Of your Rocky Shores

There

Where my feet

Have walked

Canine Friend beside

There

Where my parents

Retired from the City

To return to a life

More conducive

To Living

There

My Father's

 Vegetable garden

My Mother's

Flowers & Herbs

Wood smoke curling

from

Fireplace & Wood stove

 Early Morning Rising

To walk your Beaches

Before

Dawns First Light

Watching

As the World

Awakened

Awestruck always

By your Beauty & Wildplaces

Where there is

Space

To Be

Far from the City

Whose Frantic Pace

Steals our Connection

To Ourselves

And our Space

On this Our Mother Earth

Content to exist

In a Swirl of Chaotic

Ever spinning

Haste

Denman

I yearn for You

The memories

That Live in your Soil

The Two decades

My Parents lived

In your gentle embrace

With Gratitude

I bow to your

Healing Touch

For so generously sharing

Your Sacred Spaces

Your Community

Your Soarding Eagle Cries

With 2 Weary

City Dwellers

Returning Home

To Island Life

Once More

Cassie Hepburn

September, 2010