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Disorder ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #312 - I have convinced myself
That chaos follows me
As if a companion
Or a stalker I can not shake
Until today's revelation
That it is merely disorder
Of my own orderly creation
Like the roiling waters
Left in the wake
Of a vessel underway
And I am always underway
Though always looking back
Focused on the havoc
Left behind
In the lives of self and others
Manufacturing in my mind
The spiritual narrative
Of a Job-like tragedy
That relieves me of responsibility
Magic ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #311 - Magic is a child
This unknown girl
Who casts upon
My weary soul
Unfettered glee
The guileless love
Which is delight
In briefest moment
Such sweet respite
From adult cares
Her master class
In living well
Petals ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #310 - Perched
Beneath a sky
Of cobalt and lavender
The dying sun
Throws a glitter bomb
Off glass towers
But all I can see
Are three dots
Racing on the display
"Jason is typing"
This Schrödinger's mobile
Holds two truths
Like petals pulled from a daisy
Each dot flashing in turn
He loves me
He loves me not
Both are true
Until the dots stop
To reveal the nature
Of the final petal
Lines ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #309 - These many lines
Of thought
Of action
Of possibility
Some converging
Some parallel
Some intersecting
A disorder
Of subtler
Orders
Patterns
Within patterns
Within a cross-section
Of a whole
Imperceptible
Step back
And back again
To reveal the whole
With its harmony of line
Construction ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #308 - I look at myself
A blur
In the foggy mirror
Every morning
After washing away
Another layer
Of accumulated detritus
Like the sculptor
Finding the figure
Inside the stone
Like a cathedral
Not yet complete
A hundred years
After the passing
Of its architects
I remain a work in progress
Under construction
In this lifetime
In the last
In the next
All that have been
And all to come
Red and the Wolf - I knew the wolf
To be a wolf
But in the forest
He was kind to me
So did not think
To give a shout
Let Grandma know
Wolf was about
April fool, that's me
No fool
The Woodsman
Fortunately
Or for desert
Wolf would have had
Me
Ebb ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #307 - The ebb
Of tides and life
Reveals the glories concealed
By full flood
Golden ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #306 - No matter the words you say
No matter the things you do
All paths lead to you
A golden destination
Partially concealed
In unfathomable
Possibility
Sea ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #305 - I lose myself in the sea
In the sounds of the waves
Breaking against the rocks
And the subtler susurrus
Of foamy water
Climbing then falling
The shallow sandy shoreline
The tiny boats
I make from the thoughts
I no longer want to have
Recede with the dying waves
To be consumed by the surf
I prepare more
With all the parts of me
I never asked for
Or cannot be rid of
And watch as they glide gently
Into roiling oblivion
I am free
For the duration
Of an ebb tide
Soon enough
The flood comes
The inexorable sea
Returns them all to me
Transition ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #304 - This flow of life
This stream of possibility
This realm of plausible hope
Where I have seen
The interplay of darkness and light
And from it learned truly
That neither is possible
Without the other
Each renders texture upon the other
While the transitions between
Reveal the greatest insights
Becalmed ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #303 - A grey day
Light flattened
By a thick
Midday haze
Made all the more grim
By my mood
Impenetrable as the atmosphere
From full steam
To dead ahead slow
All stations stop
Close my eyes
Deep breath
Not stopped
Becalmed
Diminished light emerges
Find the blue
In sky and sea
Contrast highlight with shadow
Underway, and it is a beautiful day
Progress ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #302 - A monument to
Patriarchy rises where
Emerald once was plenty
Now all grey and jaundice
I often wonder
What the world would look like
Had the matriarchs run the show
And life were of feminine design
Cadence ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #301 - The world moves
In its own time
And I in mine
A dance
A rhythm
Obstinate
Relentless
Cadence
Unique
To my mind's
Perceiving
And should I not exist
To observe
As sun surrenders sky
To the stars
Would there be time
At all?
Lost in the Fog - The monuments we erect
To assure ourselves
Of our own greatness
Barely breach
The lowest cloud
Of nature's modest creation
While the trail
Of our existence
Is a contrail adrift in time
Dissipating in the empty sky
Of infinite space City~ Pic and a Word Challenge #300 - We build
Ever higher
To breach the sky
This city in the clouds
City of dreamers
Whose feet rarely
Touch the ground
And whose hearts
Rarely
Touch each other
Amber~ Pic and a Word Challenge #299 - This amber glow
To end the day
In just repose
As glories fade
Now soon the night
Will bring its peace
This wintry light
A shortened lease
Though night be long
With December's chill
The fire's song
And downy fill
Warm my soul
'Til slumber comes
Pay dreamy toll
Returns the sun
Cold Reminder - On the cold days
I'm reminded
That most days
Life is a struggle
A struggle
To stay warm
And keep fed
To love
And be loved
A beautiful struggle
Remembering Epiphany - I squint into the sun
And existence becomes
A blackened vignette
With a sparkling path
Leading directly
To a burst of light
In a cloud-strewn sky
A vision I recognize
From those times of connection
When I was one with everything
And the knowledge of all existence
Seemed not only plausible
But within my grasp
Heady times
And I wonder
Was I mad then to believe
The epiphany was real
Or mad now to have let it slip
From experience
To memory
Now a personal myth
Divine ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #298 - I discover the divine
In moments
Of connection
With all that is
I begin to wonder
If the divine
Is in the moment observed
Or is divinity
Created by the act
Of observing
Spectacle ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #297 - With some bluster
Does the wind complain
Drives the sea
And the clouds
To fraught disdain
In these throes do I
Count my many blessings
For the calm
Which stills me
Deep inside
Unlike the waves
Upon the water
And the sky
My mind is quiet
Without torment to promote a cry
And while horizon
Soon the sun obscures
The star within
Shines bright
With everlasting light
Bluster ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #296 - With some bluster
Does the wind complain
Drives the sea
And the clouds
To fraught disdain
In these throes do I
Count my many blessings
For the calm
Which stills me
Deep inside
Unlike the waves
Upon the water
And the sky
My mind is quiet
Without torment to promote a cry
And while horizon
Soon the sun obscures
The star within
Shines bright
With everlasting light
Grace through the Rubble - I make my way
Down channeled paths
Wending through
Hardship and trouble
To overcome
The flow adjusts
Weaves a line
Ofttimes turbulent
While rocks and stumps
Which interfere
I push aside
With force of will determinant
And rest I may
In respite of pools and lakes
To carry on with grace aplomb
Through demise and rubble
Lavender on Broken Glass - Soft and sharp
Lavender petals fall
On broken glass
So is the moment
Of our sweet reckoning
Embraced in tears
Upon the Sigh - Dawn already
Come and gone
First sun reflects
From wintry throne
Beneath the glow
Of cloudless sky
I hold my grief
In chill repose
The magic light
Has challenged woes
Soon comes the smile
Upon the sigh
Chill ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #295 - On a crisp December day
Atop an inverted sky
Snowy clouds
Blown across the ice
Thighs itch
From penetrating chill
A wan sun
Does nothing to warm
A few moments here
To record the scene
Then retreat
To the warmth
Of electric fire
A sugary cup
Of cocoa
And family
i of the Storm - I come for the storms
To be confronted
By nature
At her extremes
To remind myself
Of things much more
Than my self
In my calm lagoon
Of self import
I am touched
By what others
Might call God
Though I admit
To no more knowledge
Than such is divine
With I
In my little i
Of the storm
That is existence
Christmas Day - He was there
Then not
All in the space
Of a few final breaths
Now a ghost
Whose laugh is lost
But to memory
And longing
Gone twenty five years
In this time of cheer
And on this day
Am I reminded
A twinkle in the eye
Said more
Than words, sometimes said
Had ever said
I love you, son
I love you too, dad
To find their meaning - I set down the words
But do not own their meaning
Any more than I control the wind
The sun
Or the rain
I release them
Into the world
Let the prevailing winds
Take them where they may
Perhaps to find the meaning
They have for you
For the Dawn - Dawn comes softly
In pastels
With a light wind
I breathe in the moment
Then hold on
To what I don't want to let go
This peace
This sanctuary
This moving on
A quiet
I have not allowed myself
To experience
In a long time
Time
In my body
Letting the world be
Just as it is
Beautiful
And dark
Tranquil
And distressed
But just for this moment
Beautiful
And tranquil
That is enough
For the dawne
Travel ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #294 - Dawn breaks in pastels
Scattered city lights
Which had powered night
Fade with encroaching day
Soon enough extinguished
While the trail
Marking my departure
Rises from the darkness
Now a frothy white
Upon grey slate
Receding mountains' majesty
Diminishes with steady progress
In some few hours to be lost
Behind the moon-swelled sea
Held fast by Earth's own gravity
So go I
Beyond the realm
Of all I know
To places
I've not yet loved
Embraced - The waves they roll
With languid reach
Well up on
The shallow beach
While out to sea
They roil and pitch
To salt the air
With fragrance rich
With mem'ries dear
From childhood clear
When castles rose
Above the sand
And mother's arms
With gentle grace
Wrapped me in
Her warming brace
Just as this ripple
Ends its leisured pace
Around my shoes
Sea's wet embrace
I Wipe Them Away - We make time across the Strait
The ferry carries me
From all that I've known
To I know not where
Yet
But that matters not
The where is not there
I've left there behind
Moved on
Forward?
Who knows
Not I
Just an hour gone
And I miss parts of it
Already
Like the child's stuffed toy
Or her comfort blanket
The woman no longer needs
Nostalgia alone soothes adult vulnerability
A bit
I hope I've left
All such things
To the past
They have earned
Like tears
That have fallen
Already forgotten
But for the trails
Dried on my cheek
I wipe them away
Cradle ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #293 - Little Island of life
Cradled by the rock
Of a stormy shore
Embattled
Protected
Thriving
Rocky ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #292 - I arrive at the end
Of a rocky path
Where a beacon indicates
A vast unknown
Beneath a misty guile
But a light of no small promise
Beckons from a distance
My faith tells me
Is surmountable
Perhaps it will be a smooth sail
On a quiet sea
Or a road no less arduous
Than the sharp-stoned path
Which bloodied my feet
Since many miles ago
No matter
The destination seems bright
And beautiful enough
While I have covered greater distances
With less hope
And no small despair
Broken - Under a blood red sky
A metaphor
A cliché
I cannot resist
Blood red it is
And so too
This journey
Heart broken
Love rent
By the loss of one
Beginnings? ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #291 - Outbound and sunrise
Clichés of new beginnings
I remain unchanged
For the Survivors - As sea falls back into sea
Prepares for a new assault on the shore
Its hardened rock
Broken but not brittle
Recalcitrant
Beneath the bruised sky
Of abuses relentless
I am reminded
Of the survivors
I came for the storms
For the thrash and hiss
Of the sea upon the rock
The immovable
Resisting the unstoppable
And it is
In a manner
Difficult to describe
So utterly beautiful
And moving
But I wish
In this moment
Only for the peace
Of a clear sky
And an ocean
Becalmed
Outbound ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #290 - I am having
High-order, ill-mannered thoughts
Inconvenient truths
As the saying goes
Understatement that it is
And I have always
Wondered why
Understatement
Doesn't have a better word
Overstatement has
Hyperbole
Pointed overstatement
An extraordinary word
Understatement
Seems so...
Well
Understated
But I'm lying
Not about understatement
I cannot overstate it
I cannot be hyperbolic
Irony ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #289 - I am having
High-order, ill-mannered thoughts
Inconvenient truths
As the saying goes
Understatement that it is
And I have always
Wondered why
Understatement
Doesn't have a better word
Overstatement has
Hyperbole
Pointed overstatement
An extraordinary word
Understatement
Seems so...
Well
Understated
But I'm lying
Not about understatement
I cannot overstate it
I cannot be hyperbolic
Wakes ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #286 - Behind me
The wake of my journey
All froth and churn
As I labour
To leave
To forget
Ahead of me
The wake of the moon
All sparkly possibility
As I awaken
To hope
To purpose
Ascension - I leave him
As an arc of energy
From the light
Which taught me love
Into a darkness
I once feared
But accepts me
With a grace
And love
Greater than any
I have known
Even his
And in that moment
The darkness itself
Becomes light
Sailing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #286 - I follow
The land's flow
Over swell
And hollow
This sea of soil
Calls out to
Hard men
Sailors of
The grasslands
Content to be at sea
Dance ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #285 - I travel along
The thin edge of life
Steep hillside above
Roiling sea below
Confined
Yet
Content
Breakers rumble
And susurru
Their soothing song
While the drive
Becomes dance
With the curves
And rolls
Keeping time
As if the lilt
Of the waves
Sing the highway
Into being
Vulnerable ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #284 - Some days the world seems
So very small and I feel
So vulnerable
Memories Under Glass - I'm gone
And she stayed behind
Or I left her
I'm not sure
Which narrative
I like the least
I carry her still
A memory under glass
Shrouded and unrepentant
A story ended
Without end
And yet untold
But for the voice
In my heart
That won't let her go
Layers ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #283 - Gentle seas
Jagged peaks
Sky in turmoil
So go
The many layers
Of I
Leaving - We argue
Whether it is
The destination
Or the journey
That matters
But sometimes
We need only observe
The point of departure
As it recedes
Into the distance
Penultimate Sunrise in the Big Smoke - It was the last full day in India. The smoke had been chokingly thick for the entire month, and Delhi hadn't even been the worst of it. Still, I'd found a decent rate at a hotel on the edge of Old Delhi's fantastical Chandni Chowk markets for the final days before my flight home. Chandni Chowk is a huge maze of ridiculously narrow and crowded streets packed to the gills with commerce and humanity, place without solitude or silence.
Release - I look back
In order to move forward
Bring the past
Into the present
Record the history
So I can release it
Carry the memory
Leave the emotional toil
Of glories and traumas
Behind
Stolen ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #283 - Stolen land
Stolen lives
Stolen dreams
Stolen hearts
Stolen culture
Stolen children
Stolen justice
Stolen time
Stolen generations
Thieves unrepentant
Cavern ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #282 - In the dream
I entered a cavernous space
Light streamed in through windows
Set in an impossibly high wall
It curved
All around me
The inner workings
The floor boards
I almost expected to see
Dali and a squadron of flying cats
So odd a place this was
Until I realized
It was me
I was inside myself
The walls and ceiling
Were my own skin
Seen from the inside
Pipes and beams my bones
But inside
Where my consciousness
Now found itself
Was a vast cavern
Of emptiness
Paddle ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #281 - Day's end
A gentle paddle
On glassy seas
My body
At peace
With my mind
With the land
With the water
With the sky
My spirit rises
To the surface
Of my being
My consciousness
Swirls in the essence
Of all that is
Like eddies
Hugging a paddle
In a vast
Bottomless
Sea
Curvature of the Earth - I stand atop a high place
Marvel at the curvature of the Earth
A reminder that I stand on the surface
Of a very small sphere
In an infinite space
I look deep within
Marvel at the unknowable infinity of being
A reminder that I stand as a presence
Manifested of an essence
Without dimension or time
For the Looking Glass - Would you return my
Gaze were it not for the lens
Friends for an instant
But I've known
No peace greater
Than the joy of
Flight
In motion
There is
Stillness
Flight - Stillness
Is a peace
I've sought
And known
But I've known
No peace greater
Than the joy of
Flight
In motion
There is
Stillness
Construct ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #280 - So much depends
On the construct, Love
Conscious
Unconscious
Conditioned
Unconditional
Unshareable
Unless a context
Shared
Frame ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #279 - The Past
Cropped and framed
Colour corrected and edited
Burnished and patinaed
To make a picture
That tells the story
I wish to remember
Creation ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #278 - There is nothing so beautiful
As a moment offered in whole
To the act of creation
Except perhaps
One given
To love
Leaves ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #277 - These leaves may seem
Like a reminder of past glory
These leaves may seem
Like a reminder of future possibility
But the leaves
Are just leaves
All the rest is just stories
I tell myself to make sense
Not of leaves
But of existence
Poetry ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #276 - Words arranged in verse
Form a matrix of possibility
An author's intentions
A reader's interpretations
Layers deep
Miles wide
All this also present
In a single word such as
Aum
Love
God
Beauty
Perfection
Each a poem with all the
Subtle renderings and possibilities of
Angelou
Frost
Dickinson
Shakespeare
Plath
The final meaning rests solely
And rightfully with the reader
Yearning for the Light of Darkness - An ornate lamp hangs
In a gentle place
There to illuminate
When darkness falls
A beautiful ornament
In the clear light of day
Would create a spectacle
In the dim hues of night
And now I wish
I had seen this room
Bathed in the prismatic glow
Which defies the dark
Beauty & Love - Every culture
Every person
Knows beauty
In their own way
I remind myself
Try to find
Beauty's heart
In every way
That is the place
Where we are all one
That is the place
From which flows love
The Extraordinary Beauty of the Everyday - The thing about travel is
Something so everyday
As a group of friends
Hanging out on a street corner
Seems extraordinary...
...even beautiful
The thing about extended travel is
Once familiarity renders
The extraordinary as everyday
The sense of beauty in the mundane
Remains...
...and travels home with me
Moments We’ll Never Know - You with the sad eyes
Who found the glass
In this swarm of activity
And I released the shutter
Capturing your moment
Of I know not what
Tired?
Beaten down?
Or just weary
Of yet another tourist
Stealing a moment of your life
For a purpose you'll never know
A Smile Above the Breakers - Hers was an exquisite beauty
Not the kind to command
Covers or runways
That puts a name
Up in lights or lead a headline
Her beauty commanded a second look
The kind you missed on a first take
And yes, it was there on the surface
But more, it ran deep
In her bearing
In the way she made others
The center of her world
Her smile flowed
From every feature of her being
To receive one was to be blessed
An Unknown Shore - I've washed up
On an unknown shore
Clear of the wreckage
From which I'd drifted
Alone on an empty sea
Bruised
Scarred
Burnt
But OK
I spit sand and salt
From my parched mouth
Thirst
Then
Hunger
But first
Reconnoiter
So up now
Onto the roiling sea of dunes
With their smaller wavelets
Of grasses in the wind...
On Bridges - There is a bridge I know
It can take you from somewhere
To somewhere else
And back again
If you care to
As I suppose
All bridges do
But I am neither here
Nor there
About the here
Or there
I prefer to be centre-span
Leaning over the rail
While worlds at odds
Pass below and behind
Their conflict bridged
There I stand
The quiet observer
To tally the to and fro
Of lives and matter
On the move
Matters of both
Consequence
And no matter
And whichever mark I tally
Important or insignificant
Or just some passing fancy
It is all just so damn
Beautiful
Being Still - I remind myself
There is always a bridge
To some place better
Than I am now
Sometimes all it takes
To cross the bridge
Is to recognize
I already have
I remind myself
There is always a light
To help me see
Who I want to be
Sometimes all it takes
To see who I will become
Is to open my eyes and realize
I already am
The Way is not a practice of movement
The Way becomes easier
When I discover gratitude
In being still
Angry Sound - angry sea
angry sky
in between
the boughs all fly
tree trunks bow
wind tests their roots
and salts the air
with whitecaps flare
so here am I
lens held to chest
braced to keep
a steady frame
while all around
the chaos roars
a shutter click
renders it tame
fortress ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #274 - towers and citadels
ramparts and parapets
fortress on the hillside
set afire in the morning sun
battles fought
war rages on
death visits here
still more to come
one strong heart
with will of stone
resolve of iron
but moments late
her final breath
his broken cry
their eyes now glazed
by death and grief
Nature’s Sutra - rain falls
pittering the leaves
pattering the earth
nature's sutra
gently chanted
outside my window
inside
warm
and calm
quiet mind
full heart
present in the moment
find a way - life finds a way
in the most inhospitable
conditions
places
times
to
survive
thrive
flourish
so too
can I
Right ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #273 - Sometimes
You don't quite
Get it right
But it's OK
To get it mostly right
Or at least somewhat right
Just so long
As you're
In the right
Freed ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #272 - In the darkness
An inner light
Dim but ageless
Beyond is daylight
Through a window
Barred
Trapped
Inside
I quell the panic
Concentrate
On the small dim light
Until it grows
Illuminates the darkness
And the latch
To the bars containing me
I am free
Remembering the power
Of even a small dim light
Starlight ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #271 - A light which burned
For ten short years
Burned thrice as bright
And yet...
unseen
Like beacons in
The darkened sky
Which lived and died
Aeons ago
But whose light
Has reached us
...Only now
Though in that beam
Cast by hands and heart
Long gone
My spirits rise
I find again
...Delight
In starry night
Whisper ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #270 - Geometries of Euclidean beings
Dominate the irregular perfections
Of organic patterns
And I
I lived my life
So very small
Now left to wonder
Shall I leave it
Having never roared
As so many others
Come and gone
Faintest whispers
On the wind
Geometry ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #269 - Geometries of Euclidean beings
Dominate the irregular perfections
Of organic patterns
And I
A lover of both
Math and nature
Am left unsure
Which is
The greater beauty
Is such judgment
Even necessary
Or wise
After all
Beauty itself
Is the construct
Of an eye
And a mind
Who am I to say
What you should find
Beautiful
Perpendicular ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #269 - Parallels & perpendiculars
Take me away
Lead me astray
Through lines
End games
I do not know
From where I came
Nor necessarily
Where it all goes
Only that all imply
In my faraway mind
Movement & change
Scale ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #268 - Once the light entered the bowl
Something magical happened
Something I'll probably
Never fully understand
The light coalesced
Hardened
Formed swirling tendrils
Of incandescence
Well
I understood one thing
Light was alive
No
Not alive
Conscious
And what I was witnessing
Was the comingling
Of unmanifested being
One each to a tendril
Swimming as if a school of fish
In a golden bowl
Struck just the right way
By the sun
And then it was gone
Light
Was merely light
Again
But some trick of the cosmic tail
Had let me in on the secret
Because in an instant
I'd known
Light
Is love
And love
Is light
When we are unmanifested
In this purest spirit form
We know this as surely as
The necessity of a breath
We know it in a way
A brain cannot grok
But our manifest purpose
The meaning of our existence
Is to remember
And for a moment
Looking into a sunlit bowl
I remembered
A glimpse of the unknowable
Out of the corner of my eye
A memory I struggle to keep
Every day
Light ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #267 - Once the light entered the bowl
Something magical happened
Something I'll probably
Never fully understand
The light coalesced
Hardened
Formed swirling tendrils
Of incandescence
Well
I understood one thing
Light was alive
No
Not alive
Conscious
And what I was witnessing
Was the comingling
Of unmanifested being
One each to a tendril
Swimming as if a school of fish
In a golden bowl
Struck just the right way
By the sun
And then it was gone
Light
Was merely light
Again
But some trick of the cosmic tail
Had let me in on the secret
Because in an instant
I'd known
Light
Is love
And love
Is light
When we are unmanifested
In this purest spirit form
We know this as surely as
The necessity of a breath
We know it in a way
A brain cannot grok
But our manifest purpose
The meaning of our existence
Is to remember
And for a moment
Looking into a sunlit bowl
I remembered
A glimpse of the unknowable
Out of the corner of my eye
A memory I struggle to keep
Every day
Vibrance ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #266 - Recall the vibrance
Once displayed in many hues
Now no more than trace remains
Though brightness scattered
Here and there
Decay sets in
Drains true nature
Of its lifely due
Thus am I left
With naught but mem'ries
Fading fast
Remiss this guard
Of summer past
Which lingers still
In so few leaves
Fallen to the forest floor
There soon enough
Back to earth
Will they be drawn
And all that was
Will then be gone
Unsent ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #265 - Don't Walk! The sign blinked
As he thumbed out his last text
"I'm running late. Almost ther"
Sunshine ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #264 - It waited for her
The little yellow chair
At the back of the house
In the little nook
Hidden away
From anyone's eyes
Late afternoon sunshine
Filtered through
The winter boughs
Eaves and overhangs
Sheltered her
From the usual Vancouver rain
But today
The sun
Fell on
Her little sunshine chair
A cigarette
And long moments
Filled with thoughts
Without consequence
Smalltalk daydreams
To pass the time
In seeming silence
While she chattered
With herself
About nothing...
Bright ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #263 - Diminished light
Yet through the cloud
She breaks
And scatters rays
Upon the rippling sea
So I may cast
Into the heavens
Wonder at such spectacle
Take the beauty to my heart
Where meets my soul
And damn if such
Is not the better part
Such soothes the grief
Of one life's sad lament
Whose diminished light
No longer casts
Onto the stilling sea
Sufficient light
To bounce a single ray
Confused and lost
Mind gone astray
Now take another breath
Do I
Remember bounteous light
Which shimmered off
A rampant sea
And know that souls
Are infinite
That one life lived
No matter grand or small
Is but a drop
Where raindrops fall
So many more still yet to come
And this one
Though diminished now
Once was bright as raging sun
Frozen Home - Drifting
In a sea of calm
Warm vibrance
Descends on the horizon
Belies the heat
And intensity
Of a glaring sun
Just departed
Its light dwindling
For the moment
Only a thin sliver of hope
Graces the sky
Soon enough
The stars
The constellations
The galaxies
As the grand parade
Of existence
Once again
Fills the cosmos
Freezing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #262 - The freeze is coming
Soon will river ice over
You below the ice
Ice ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #261 - His was a visage of ice
Cold, chiseled
A frosty burn to the touch
Which not even the fire
Of his desire
Could melt
It protected him
It destroyed him
It hardened him
It betrayed him
For anyone could see
Just below the surface
The heat his coldness
Would never emit
The Calm After - Drifting
In a sea of calm
Warm vibrance
Descends on the horizon
Belies the heat
And intensity
Of a glaring sun
Just departed
Its light dwindling
For the moment
Only a thin sliver of hope
Graces the sky
Soon enough
The stars
The constellations
The galaxies
As the grand parade
Of existence
Once again
Fills the cosmos
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