Here they silently speak my language
Share my passion for puns
Take pride in a past that is a portrait
Of my heritage and the story of my blood.
Here I belong
The names of the rivers and valleys and mountains
Are etched as clearly in my mind as the rugged landscapes
That call out my name on wild and windy mornings
and stir my restless spirit from its slumbers.
Irwell, Ribble, Eden, Lune
Here the waters wash away my whispers
Pendle, Cribden, Criffel, Shap
Here the shale and slate smooths away my fears.
©Alison Jean Hankinson
This is for d’Verse poetics.
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How beautifully this captures your sense of your “belonging place”.
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You found your home. Love the names, and the contentment of your world around you.
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It sounds like you are the bridge that the birds are flocking to. The wind calling you from distant lands. Just a thought
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Oh yes! You know where you belong.
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The comforting familiarity of home!
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Belonging, a wonderful feeling that you have evoked in the spells of the mountain and river names and the sound of accent and dialect. Magic!
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Belonging yes, and also solace I thought for a spirit blown here and there.
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Ah the wonderful sense of familiarity!💖 This is such a gorgeous write, Alison.
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I love your poem of home… security, stability, nostalgia, and contentment!
Dwight
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One with nature
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Your words illustrate a beautiful sense of belonging.
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Thank you. XXX
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I like how the landscape calls out one’s name.
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When even the name are a comfort… you are home
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acceptance, kinship
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Gorgeous closing line. And THIS:
“… Share my passion for puns
Take pride in a past that is a portrait
Of my heritage and the story of my blood”
That is awesome.
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What a beautiful feeling of belonging, of place. Not sure I’ve ever had that quite as vividly as you portray it. Well done!
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