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Discovery & Self-Discovery, Eastern Peru |
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BY NATURE  The plentiful waters and rich jungle growth of the Pacaya-Samiria Preserve. |
of TheColumnists.com
The river basin of
the upper Amazon,
A sodden land of flourishing fertility.
An endless flat-earth wilderness
Rejuvenated every season by the floods,
Converting to a labyrinth of trackless oxbows,
Bayous, lakes and swamps
Chock-full of floating plant life
Underneath a luxury of purple-red bromeliad epiphytes
On trees providing balmy shade.
This
Eden panorama singular in lush green beauty
Offers its nirvana for the herons, egrets
And the rainbow-colored fishing birds,
A clan disdainfully regarding errant novice boaters
Who’ve invaded,
Underestimating infinite expanse of virgin wetlands,
Navigating randomly, unseen, untutored,
Cut off from all helping hands,
Nevermore returning,
Nevermore encountered,
Locked in warm embrace of temptress nature,
Rolling once too often their intrepid pair of dice,
Left marooned for emerald-hued eternity
In God’s unspoiled, unpopulated paradise.
---The Pacaya-Samiria Preserve, Peru
©2010 by Paul Hertelendy. This column was first posted March 15, 2010.
Paul Hertelendy is critic
and webmaster for the arts-review web site www.artssf.com, and
is also the Piedmont (CA) Centennial poet laureate.
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