A Homecoming

                                                                                     Attribution: M Bednar

Image: Blue Ridge Parkway Farm (here)

The flight was uneventful and boring

Only fluffs of white clouds by the window

As though one is bedded where angels tread

Softly as babies on a luxurious lullaby

Mind occupied with events days ago

Of an impending Board Meeting he was to chair

More or less duplicating a similar event

Of a decade ago having arrived at the Big Apple

With visions of a being a successful trader

Acting on an e-mail from his elder sister

Hurrying him home to his roots in the country

For she is down from lots of elderly ailments

Wanting him back to see to the family property

Acres of land in the beautiful country-side

But left to the vagaries of weather these past years

Left word he should be back within days

Left everything to his deputy and off he went

He went back exactly the way he came

With lots of questions and anticipations

There he was now standing looking at old Joe’s

A cabin where he spent lots of long hours

Listening to old Joe’s yarn of his days as a farm-hand

On his family ranch tending to his grandad’s  livestock

                                                                               Attribution: M Bednar

Image: Blue Ridge Parkway Farm (here)

The poetry book is still on the table the larder undisturbed

Very unlike a well organized old Joe to leave in such a hurry

The woods behind the cabin where he used to chase rabbits

Laid bird-traps with old Joe’s insistence and skilled expertise

Reflected the same mystery as when he was a kid before

Why everyone left the ranch just a few months after him

Why no word except for a few letters in the beginning

Perhaps his sister should know and he needed to know

There’ll be lots of email to be relayed in days to come

Among the first is to his deputy who is waiting for his return

It’ll be a long wait for he decided to tend to the ranch first

He is not coming back! Not just yet!


For Margaret's hosting at Play it Again #10 at Real Toads and
my feeble attempt at trying to emulate Dylan Thomas the only choice
of the 3 offered that seems like a free verse and near enough.
Shared with Brian's hosting at d'Verse - homecoming