Stan Rogal- LEGEND

Hello everyone, here is my first blog post.
Below is a poem written by Canadian author Stan Rogal entitled
'Legend'
It follows the Canadian themes we will be studying this term with reference to the landscape of Canada.


Here is the country side. Staggered
Flat or rolling. Spun with thick grasses or
spiked with wildflowers & tall stands of timber.
Big & bold as anything you can't imagine
Those mountains. That river. The fact of
a few fallen inches of snow covering the treetops.
What is common called a landscape.
Yet, from the awed sea arises the proposition:
What grape, to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
In deed
EmptyAs the pilgrims false persuasion
about the source of oracles
or pygmies shooting arrows at the eclipsing sun.
Adulterate nature offers such easy scape
For raptured spirits & similar low ghosts
set to save their mortal souls
Whereas
What never took it so much to heart
Simply, to make the stone stony
Bows beneath the weight
& is nailed at every crossing.