The great outdoors
Was the only orchestra she ever heard
Half-shut eyes ‘neath cloud-fluffed skies
Held picture shows thought-blurred
Singers were boys and girls best-dressed
Four-part harmony cool
In Christmas carols to moms and dads
At a concert in a two-room school
And entertainment was a shallow brook
Where minnows and tad-poles played
She traveled the world in story books
On a barge of willow-shade
Sometimes she would sit past the barn on a hill
Watching a highway holding campers and cars
And she wondered where all 'those people’ go
Then she would lie back and count stars
Freedom was free as the wind that blew
Through the only world she knew
Of field and firth, heaven on earth
On a stage grass-green, sky-blue
© Janet Martin
Emily Dickinson couldn't have said it better :)
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