The Dead Nest: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

The Dead Nest

I

On a bluff above the lake
Was the bower, where the wake
Of pleasure craft passed below
Whose possessors seldom know
Of the simple, custom hushed,
Ways by progress not yet crushed;
So it was in this quaint place,
Though afar the engines race
Of truck, train, globe-hopping jet,
Here old manners linger y…