Lady at the Well



Lady at the well
On a lonely stretch of wooded road
I paused to rest awhile
when glancing up my eyes beheld
a Lady with a gentle smile.
Her presence wasn't natural
her spiritual than real
not something that one can explain
--a sensation ....that one feels.
Beside a roadside well  she stood
and offered me a drink
it wasn't water- in the sense --we know
but knowledge to make me think.
So radiant ---so lovely
so beautiful....so sleek
I heard her words of wisdom
yet, she did not speak.
What she divulged to me
--never shall---I tell
I made a certain promise
---to the lady ---at the well---
One day--you too, may wander
down that lonely wooded road
and then---you will know the truth
of the tale that I have told.
And---if you see the Lady
beside the roadside well
listen to the wisdom
---that she has --to tell.

About this poem

No idea where this one came from ;my pen just wrote it out at one sitting. My comment who? where did this come from ? No idea. Sometimes I see in my mind just a idea or hear or see something and I grab pen and paper and like many of my poems it is imaginative out of nowhere. No idea where they all come from. My Imagination knows no bounds. I just see it in my head and out comes a poem --no idea where they come from. Can't stop writing either stories or poems.

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Written on May 09, 1993

Submitted by norma.suddard on August 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBCDEFGHIJIKLMLKANAOBPQKAMA
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Characters 789
Words 151
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 29

Norma Suddard

Previously wrote tons of poems. This is only one of so many poems that I couldn't stop writing. I would just imagine in my mind about something or see a piece of broken shard and out came a poem. I have so many, many poems and stories in my books --several binders of poetry, stories and thoughts. I have over 2 large binders of poetry and more than 8 binders on stories I have written. I just see something or think about something and out comes a poem or story. I have also done Ancestry since 2004. My binders take up hugh shelves on both stories and poems. I am in about 10 books of poetry alone never mind the stories. I love to write. Most of my poems are rhymes but there are others that tell a story. Norma J. Suddard more…

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