His cradle was hewn from English trees And all his roughneck days made time for heir adoration. His backyard was a playground f0r loud dreams And remembrances. Now well worn shoes track through fields, That lend their way to hills rooted in his soul. Thoughts of when he wore a warrior's shield making Battlefields proud, invade. Remembered are secrets buried long ago with his armor\
sits easy at the hearth of the Warrior in his smile. His strength is renewed when in the presences of the talking stones That spoke of Wisdom before His first cry Ipon a resting hill, lakes appear water, once red from The screams of desired Freedom. and Battle sowards dipped in hopful Baptism. He sees now that battlefields have returned to the green of their youth,free now from planed chos,Today his battlefields made proud are growing seeds of life. A nd now he no longer steps through slaughtered bone and flesh.
upon a hillside
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Posted: Aug 2014
About this poem:
This was for my friend Gordon..Shrop Lad, a fine poet who writes of the land he loves so much, Dhropshire, Uk Shrop Lad
9the Wizzard of Shropshire
For my friend "Shrop Lad . The hills and Glens of Shropshire weep when he cannot walk the landd he so loves Which is not often