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Secret Pond

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge.
Here’s where Crispina’s image took me.

© Crispina Kemp

Secret Pond

Beneath the canopy of spring’s bright green,
A quiet pond lies hidden, calm, and clear,
Where sunlight filters softly through the screen
Of leaves that whisper secrets none can hear.

The ancient trees stand guard along the shore,
Their gnarled reflections pooling in the deep,
As if the water held some hidden store
Of every dream the forest chose to keep.

The grasses bend where earth meets liquid glass,
And sky and branch together, merged as one,
While dappled shadows fall across the grass
In shifting patterns woven by the sun.

Here time moves slow, unhurried, soft, and still,
No sound but rustling leaves and water’s breath,
A secret place, forgotten by the hill,
Where nature rests between its life and death.

NAR©2026

This is “In The Forest” by Van Morrison

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #086

Everything seen here was created by me, unless otherwise indicated. Thanks for your consideration. NAR©2017-present.

24 thoughts on “Secret Pond”

  10. Wonderful Nance – with the cycle of life and death – the poem takes on a meditative, spiritual quality, transforming the ‘hidden pond’ from just a pretty location into a sanctuary outside of time 💚🙌

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