A Bear! Where?
Wondered into our camp site, what a fright!
The Prompt from Sahil Patel: “Think about a time when nature really moved you. Describe how being in a specific natural place made you want to write. Share how the beauty of nature inspired the words you put on paper and how it changed your feelings.”
Sahil Patel has weekly prompts on medium.com. Many are nature prompts, at least those are the ones I have responded to.
"A Bear! Where?", by Denise Estey Lindquist
I love visiting the BWCA
the Boundary Waters Canoe Area!
I was there when a bear came into camp.
My brother-in-law chased him up a ramp.
Okay, not really, but up a long path!
Halfway up he realized there could be rath!
on that path, or there will be an ending.
Whose ending will it be? He stopped right then.
He came back to camp; we were all bending.
Packing up gear to head out where and when,
we didn’t know. It was beautiful there!
After, I wasn’t worried about bear!
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"Maple Syrup"
One of my favorite seasons
A favorite time of the year
Our weather in Minnesota
would probably produce a
little maple syrup right now,
a time when some bears take a bow
stripping the bark and eating
on the sapwood. It is freezing
at night and above freezing during
the day. Odd weather for here, but
last year our winter was long and cut
down on animals in the wild
I like to see bears when it is mild.
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Adapted for Vocal and first published by Reciprocal on medium.com
About the Creator
Denise E Lindquist
Retired, working part-time as a Native American culture consultant. I have an MSE, and an ABD. I write on Vocal, and Facebook. Poetry, non-fiction mostly, and working on fiction. Wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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