Shanna Lion's Bridge & Poetry

I didn't have time to write much while we were at Lion's Bridge, but I liked this line: "Ivy youth in hidden hollow / As fading footprints bend and follow / The shortest story of every leaf, / a daunted poet's green relief." Poetry has been my past time since I was ten or eleven years old. This simple line might not attest to that, but it's true. It is no coincidence that poets have found so much inspiration in nature over the course of history. Men can build incredible things; ships that cross oceans, skyscrapers, damns... But whereas it takes humans so long to invent and create these things, it takes nature only moments to destroy them. A powerful force not be reckoned with. The creations of man can be impressive, but they will only impress me to an extent, and then comes the natural world. Men take lifetimes learning how to draw perfect circles. Nature forms them everyday from whirling eddies engraving stones, to the centers of daisies. Nature doesn't even have to try, it just happens! That is much more than impressive. Humans must hunt for food or grow it, plants create their food. Animals do not kill for sport or cruelty or vengeance... in a word, they're blameless. Of course, nature can be cruel, but all cruelty has an ultimate purpose which reaches far and beyond those frivolous purposes of man.