Peace Broke Poem by Egal Bohen

Crevassed trunks
Soaked in low light of northern sun
Leant angled on a rocky shore
Reclining pines
Smooth shades of pink
Soar lofty over secret loch
Inset within a wild moor

Forgot

Tranquil
Distant
Silhouette

Descended from primeval dawn

Direct below
Wild twisting roots
Exposed
Grotesque
Through gravels shallow turn
Entwined

Abandoned cones
Twixt antler horn
Lie upon the forest floor
Forlorn

Symbols both
Of life
Unformed

Before..
Still waters
Silent set
Shallow
Spreading
Deep and cool

Ethereal
Isolated
Upland pool

Calm
As mercury
About the pebble stone
Stood solitary
In the bay

Stone of eternity

That patiently awaits
Wearing
Slowly
Slow
Away

Marsh grass

Black clumps
Along the ragged margins edge
Petrified
Unruffled images
In mirror set
Imprisoned
Frozen
In a landscape
Filled
With quietness

The faintest whisper

If here spoke
Would split apart
As lightning
Shatter atmosphere
Evoke

An act of violence

As words intrude
Into this place
Of silent thought

Peace
Broke