# Have You Ever Stopped To Listen?

Author: ShingetsuMoon
Tags: Nature, Poem, Poetry

#2 of National Poetry Writing Month

Whimsical feel good poem I came up with while sitting at a park on a beautiful day a few weeks ago. Written for National Poetry Month.

  

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Have you ever just sat still  
and appreciated the beauty of nature?  
Have you seen the sunlight dance across  
the water like diamonds?

Sat and watched an eagle skim across  
the waves to grab its next meal?

Walked past a field and paused a moment  
to look out at the wildflowers now in bloom?

Have you ever pulled your mind away  
from everything else around you...  
and just listened?

To the wind in the trees.  
To the birds singing in their branches.  
To the waves washing in an out.

Have you ever stared up at a mighty  
tree and wondered what stories it had to tell?  
What wonders it had seen in the centuries since  
it had first sprouted out of the ground?

Have you ever stared into the eyes of an animal  
and seen a living soul staring back?

Have you ever stopped for just a moment  
to realize the beauty that's all around you?  
A beauty and magnificence that passes us  
by each and every day without us realizing it?

Have you ever stopped to listen?

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/B1QR0Gve
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