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Ken Hada


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Crawl through granite and cedar

where wind and sun bake clean.

Sit where silence rules wind,

a road three thousand feet below,

spotted blue lakes beyond.


Look out to flatland extending

as far as imagination carries

yet that distance is no farther

than the hope and fear

we allow inside our hearts.


When life is battled and bottled

take your bruises to the mountain,

rest in cedar shade until color

of granite pinkens your gills,

know the heart will soon follow.


From Margaritas & Redfish
(Lamar UP, 2013).
Used here with the author's permission.

 


Ken Hada is a professor at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and hosts a weekly podcast, "The Sunday Poems." Author of ten books, the latest being Come Before Winter, his 2021 book, Contour Feathers, received the Oklahoma book Award. Ken's work has also received awards from Western Writers of America and the National Western Heritage Museum. Raised in the rural Ozarks, he enjoys hiking, flyfishing, and kayaking. Learn more about Ken at www.kenhada.org.

                                                 

 


Post New Comment:
rhonasheridan:
With out a doubt Nature heals wounds of every sort. What a lovely poem.
Posted 10/11/2016 10:07 AM
Maryann Hurtt:
Yes, Ken, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers, and everything between. Good to have met you at Scissortail.I especially love your River White book.
Posted 10/10/2016 10:46 PM
anne.lehman2929@att.net:
I like this poem because nature does allow the bruised to heal: "take your bruises to the mountain." I take mine to the lake. Thanks for the message.
Posted 10/09/2016 03:19 PM


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