A Contrast in Habitats

Part 1: New England

I love autumn’s blaze of color thrown across the hills,

I love the sound of trickling water tumbling down the rills,

I love tall pines in winter standing stark against the snow,

I like the little villages dressed up for Christmas show,

I love crocuses in springtime with peep frogs heard throughout the land

And in the summer I like to watch waves pounding on the sand.

I love maple sugaring in spring and apple picking in the fall,

I love New England’s old red barns and lumpy gray stone walls.

I love New England churches standing tall and white on the town green,

I love a quiet woodland walk where no one else has been,

With so many things to like, including pastures full of cows,

Why is that I find myself living in the desert now?

Part 2: The Desert

I love the feathery green foliage of our native desert trees

And city ponds filled with ducks and occasionally some grebes,

I like the craggy mountains that encircle me in town,

I like the Monsoon rains when they come pouring down,

I love pale green saguaros standing tall against the sky,

I love the murmur of Gambel’s quail as they are passing by,

I love the lizards in my yard climbing everywhere,

I love the sight of nighthawks as they slice through evening air,

I love looking up and seeing stars shining in the night,

Twinkling in the darkness and sending down their light,

I love a place where all year round I watch the flowers bloom,

A place where I can live outside in an outdoor room,

I love hummingbirds in winter, and not having to shovel snow,

If I love this desert life so much, why would I ever go?

~Kathie Adams Brown (April 8, 2013)

NaPoWriMo2013 Day 7