Alliteration Contest Poems: Alberta Prairie Breeze, Stephen Bauhart

Stephen Bauhart is a poet, a father, and a PhD student at the University of Calgary. After a twelve year writer's block he's back trying to make it all make sense in verse and rhyme

Alberta Prairie Breeze

A million million stalks of grass
Sway and whisper, bend, and flow,
Murmuring ‘round those who pass –
Bid they “welcome”?  Bid they “go”?
Just walk, my friend – you’ll never know.

That murmur’s not for you, my friend –
The secrets prairie breezes said,
And say and say without an end
Will still be whispered when you’re dead,
To swaying seas of grass, instead.