Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GREEN VALLEY, by DOROTHY VENA JOHNSON


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GREEN VALLEY, by                    
First Line: I stood in a meadow
Last Line: Surrounding me.


I stood in a meadow
And all I could see
Was the green valley
Surrounding me.

Then the setting sun
Burned a ghastly red:
Blood of young men
Too soon dead.

A tawny lizard
Crawled near my feat:
I visioned women
Alone, deplete.

And now and then
A fledgling cried,
Like destitute folk
On the wayside.

When I beheld
The tallest tree,
My soul expanded
Inside of me.

I wished, as I viewed
The greenest pit,
To bury ugliness
In it.

The hills were rich
With buds impearled.
The valley seemed
To engulf the world.

I stood in the meadow,
And all I could see
Was the green valley
Surrounding me.






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