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Invisible Wind - A cloudless sky
An invisible wind
But for the snow
Dragged over the peaks
A roiling plume
Like my mind
As I'm buffeted
Not so steadfast
As the rocky peaks
For Earth Day - When the moon and planets align
In the darkness that is not yet night
I am reminded that this home, this Earth
Is one preciously small orb
In a vastness sporadically dotted
With preciously small orbs
An infinitesimal in the infinite
Just like me
Slumber ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #136 - He slept as it snowed
And it became
The slumber of aeons
His awakening would be
Celebrated around the world
Though his eyes never opened again
Forsaken Library - It had been a library
Once
I guess it still was
Though
What did that matter
Few
Enough left who could
Read
The irrelevant past
Now
Silly stories of
Love
Self help for plentiful
Times
Dystopian imaginings for a world of
Ease
So it was no wonder salvagers
Found
No value in the printed
Word
Builders We - Such prolific builders we
Who raze an endless stand of trees
Erecting concrete towers in their place
With geometric rigour lacking nature's grace
We sunder her, retrain our eyes to see
Shadow in the Mist - I remind myself
Step
Into my being
Out of the shadows
Beyond the mist
Steadfast
Manifest
Consummate
More Love - Come away with me
I will let you be
Whoever you wish to be
He doesn't love you
Who would limit you
To who you are now
He does not love you
Who would have you
All to himself
That is not love
But the need of love
Like a fetish
This Little Buoy - This little buoy
Between the rocks
Bobs and clangs
In gentle swells
A narrow draft
'Tween reef and land
One red one green
The channel marked
At night
Her light
Bright green
Is seen
Green on the port
To find the port
Green to starboard
Then sail the seas
Wake - Always looking forward I move through the world Oblivious to the wake Left in my path Until I look back Into the shadowy past And see the ripples Of my existence Disturb the worlds of […]
Occluded ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #135 - Oh the grandiosity
Of mountain ranges
Under cloudless skies
Though here demurred
Occluding smoke
Smothers valley's depth and scale
Still, upon a closer look
The trees, a ridge
A jagged line
And then another
Slight serrated edge
The third and fourth both smoother still
Just Take It In - Sometimes
I just take it in
Don't try to figure things out
Sometimes
There's just too much going on
Too many possibilities
Overwhelmed
Confused
Disoriented
So I watch
So I listen
And try not to think
Let it all settle
Awakening - In the blurry fog
Of Western Christianity
In which there seemed
Oh so much hypocrisy
The gentle touch
Of Eastern thought
Guided me
Along a different path
Straight to the heart
Of Christ's own ways
I in the Crowd - I scan the crowd
Everyone so different
Yet all the same
And then there is I
So different still
From all the rest
Or so
I like
To think
An Intimacy Between Strangers - >There is a certain kind of inner smile
Which accompanies a smile shared among strangers
An experience to be treasured
Aqua and Azure ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #134 - On another day
The storms would come
To whip the sea
Into delightful fury
But today
Though the wind be high
In the lee of the rocks
A delightful calm
I love them both
The battering grey
The aqua and azure
Though...
I the Sun; You the Moon - I wonder at you
Lapping at the shores
Of my consciousness
The light sussuru of wavelets
Tumbling onto the beach
A constant presence
Only noticed
When I turn my mind to you
And I realize
You're always there
A tide
In constant ebb and flow
As I live in the world of the sun
And you the moon
The Most Powerful Love - I try to imagine
Something more powerful
Than the beauty of you
More magnetic
Than the light of your being
Something which could draw me in
With such inescapable gravity
As the love I've discovered
At the center of your heart
The Glow of Life - he glow of lights
I see at night
Try to perceive
In light of day
As aural gleam
A sign of this
Candescent life
Celestial Dream - Where celestial
And terrestrial
Meet
Glory Falls
Once
Too soon fades to black
Though quick enough to rise
again
The gloried swell
To consciousnes
From dream
The Next Refrain - There's a little black cloud
In the sky tonight
Between the setting sun
And the bright moonlight
There's an indigo rush
As blood and ochre fight
And the sea is becalmed
Beneath the mountains might
I have stood here before
In this sundown pain
And the stars still to come
After the planets reign
With the world writ so large
I feel my being wane
Falling deep into grace
I sing the next refrain
Night Passage - Sweeping beam
Lights the way
Then guided home
By bell and whistle
Safe harbour waits
Through narrow channel
Between the rocks
Let us not stray
Eastern Glow - While others gaze
Upon low lying sun
I turn my eye
Unto opposing sky
And glory in
The subtler shades
Which vibrance
Though far less pronounced
Such bare honest glow
With its gracious tones
In soft pastel
Restrained
Rangeland Sunset - Making time
Across a wide flat land
Sky burnished amber
Prairie icons
Punctuate the horizon
In a place of
Simplest existence
Simple and hard
And I drive on
Magic Sunlight - Sometimes
I remember
It's just a star
Sometimes
I realize
The magic of its light
Most days
It rises, it sets
Another day gone by
But today
It's magic
And so am I
Sunday - Through the trees
The rock
And the sea
A rugged shoreline
In splendid
Repose
While I
Breathe silently
In time
With the rush of ocean
Upon the land
Dappled sun
Offers
Tonic warmth
Aliens - I look to the sky
Wondering
If the aliens will ever come
I look to the sea
Realizing
They're already here
Clustered - I marvel at life
All clustered together
Enclaves of variety
And I wonder at you and I
With all that space
We put between us
And still
We just can't
Get along
Light ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #133 - In the darkness
Sweeping light
So sidle by
Serrated shore
Escorted in
Safe harbour
Waits
Golden Vein - A seam ran through his being
Like a little vein of gold
Cleaving the dark bitterness
When he sensed its presence
The bitter fell away
Illuminating the darkness
When he couldn't
All he sensed
Was darknessStillness - The clouds
Racing the sky
The sea
Boils and churns
And I
Quiet my mind
Be still
Become the stone
Curiosity - Into the deepest shadows
I peer
Before entering
Initiate
Expectant
With trepidation
But driven
By curiosity
And possibility
The Texture of Beauty - What seems smooth
From afar
Proximity reveals
Scars
Pockmarks
Weathering
Textures
Of distress
Hardship
Healing
Evidence
Of strength
Tenacity
Resilience
The marks of true beauty
Twilight ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #132 - In the failing twilight
Upon the farther shore
Warm lights rise
In the encroaching night
I wonder at the lives
Lived in the glow
Which to me
Seems just a dot
Reflected
Off a still sea
Grace Which Offers Hope - Even in the dourest grey There is a beauty Calling me Up to the light It wrests a smile From sadness Grace Which offers hope In darkest place There helps me cope Then rise Up […]
Brothers and Sisters of the World - Travelling In the family Of travelers Brothers and sisters Of the world We bring its people together
Times I Never Lived - I like to reminisce
About
Times I never lived
They seem to be much
Grander
Than the times I'm living now
I create them like
A dream
All lofty and sublime
Believing there's
A truth
To the beauty of the lie
This Golden Touch - This golden touch
I reach for Earth
Connect to it
And all that is
With quiet mind
Become as one
With everything
All I know - I often wonder
If the city is
The beauty it seems to me
Or perhaps some
Unmitigated tragedy
A grand delusion
At the end of a road
A wrong fork taken
Many eons ago
Was I really meant
To live this way
Were we
It's all I know
But is it
All I can know
Pretty Things - A little bit of string
Round and round
The weathered trunk
Such a pretty thing
I don't know why it's there
Not that I really care
It's warm
There's sun
That little bit of string
Is just the perfect thing
Old Wood Cool - He was old wood cool
Rugged, lined and beautiful
Someone people clung to
Like paint
He didn't choose his friends
Everyone was welcome
And he played no favourites
But few weathered well in his company
Most faded quickly
In that radiant presence
I loved the bastard
And hated him
Lost to Eternity - His memory of them was faint
Especially his father
The moments
Which held them both
Were few
And distorted
Because he tried so hard
To place features
On their bodies
On their faces
Which he just couldn't recollect
Over time he'd lost
The recollection of the places, too
Blur and Shadow - Sometimes the world seems
Populated by blurs and shadows
Even I am not entirely solid
I often wonder, then
Am I the blur?
Am I the shadow?
In all those other eyes
I can barely see
Time ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #131 - Walk/don't walk
Stop/maybe don't stop
Make up my mind
Wavering on this indecision
Irresolute at the crossroads
Considering east and west
North and south
All avenues open
None being taken
With nowhere to go
And all day to get there
I am not going
Anywhere
Ocean of Calm - The serenity
Of the shoreline
With the mist
And the clouds
An ocean of calm
Like a breath
And a sigh
Missing the Sea - It's a funny thing
That I live just one block
From the ocean
Often times smell the salt
And the tide
Through an open window
And yet
I miss the sea
An urban inlet
Is not a wide sandy beach
On a limitless sea
With breakers vaulting salt spray
Into the atmosphere
Eye - Eye check my ego
Eye check my arrogance
Eye look in the mirror
Remind myself to look away
So eye can see the me who is
Rather than the me who is seen
Eye reflect on my deeds, on my actions
Measure them against my ideals, my beliefs
I is a thing
Which cannot see
Beyond the shell
Which houses I
Occluded Light - I try to let the light in
But the clouds
Occlude it
A dark shroud
The gentle beat of my heart
A metronome
A clockwork
But the thrum of life
Is not the energy of being
Body working; spirit latent
Too Late and Far Too Much - It tastes like despair
The air
Like defeat and despair
The charged atmosphere
Alive after the months
Of dead, dry heat
Thunder rolls across
The parchment plains
Rain is coming
Too late
And far too much
Pics or it didn’t happen - Pics or it didn't happen
But I was so busy
Photographing
Instagramming
Facebooking
Snapchatting
Wordpressing
Tweeting
It happened
But I wasn't there
Beautiful Presence - I am never more beautiful
In countenance
In presence
In spirit
Than when my mind is quiet
Connected to all things
At peace with myself
And the moment, just as it is
Called - The road goes on ahead
Down, down, down
Into the smokey valley
But I would stay here
Above the floor
Above the fray
In the unfettered sun
Where the mountain breeze
Clears the air, so pure
If not for the call
And the necessity
For the work
Daybreak - Gently
I enter the day
Warming slowly
To the light
The birdsong
The clackety rumbling
Of footfalls and engines
Outside the window
As existence draws me back
Into being
Though, really
I could do with a few more hours
Of non-being
Moments ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #130 - There is a moment
A moment before
A moment after
Each with their own tenor
Their own flavour
Their own meaning
There is the overall
The changing times
The recollected meaning
Of a moment
Made up of moments
All part of another
Moment
The Holy Ganga - There are waters in this world
I would not so much
As dip a toe in
I am thinking
As a mother purifies herself
In the waters of the holy Ganga
While her daughters prepare
To leap in, yet again
Kites in the Twilight - A story told
In every land
Come twilight
In the quiet time
We take repose
In gentle acts
Of little
Or no
Consequence
Though
An unsubtle beauty
In recompense
The Fog of Pain - I wonder why she lingers
There
An hour or so
Every day
On the bench
By the shore
On the edge of the fog
I wonder why
But I think I know
That bridge has been enough trouble
For us
No
For me
Maybe just for me
Even before the fog
Astronomical Beauty - Sometimes I wonder
If I have stepped onto another world
But...
Could there be another place
In the universe
As beautiful as this one?
Magic Isle - Like some magic Isle
Home of sorcerers and kings
A misty shroud
Hides secret things
The waters
Preternaturally
Still
Beneath them slinks
Unearthly beast
And I
A Knight
With hallowed sword
Will sail across
Beyond the wards
And battle dragons
Which hurl epithets
And fire
Cinematography - We master the light
Know the science, the art
The secrets of magic
Welcome to
The grand illusion
Where we transform
The most mundane
To spectacular
Profoundly beautiful
Cinematically ugly
Or other worlds
Never before
Imagined
Never Night - On a world
Forever bright
Never night
The ever-present suns
Bear down
Hammers on
An anvil
Blessed shade and gloom
In an existence
Which fears the light
Grateful for each eclipse
Beauty in the shadows
Mystery in the illumined
Too bright for eyes to see
Imagination ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #129 - In the dimness
I saw a monster on my bed
But just a towel
In a jumble
A child's mind
Trying to make sense
In reflections
I see a dragon breathing fire
But just a building
With a light on
Like the child
Imagination still at play
Expect the Unexpected - There are places
On this Earth
Which taught me
Expect the unexpected
And still
They surprise me
The Infinity Beyond My Ken - Possibilities
The ways of being
I cannot comprehend
Exploring the infinity
Beyond my ken
What I love about existence
Beneath an Unblinking Eye - In the light
I am caught
Ominous
It hangs there
No rotor wash
No engine sound
A not quite motionless
Hover
A spectacular
Unblinking eye
Staring at me
Strange and Familiar - Familiar to a billion
But utterly strange
To me
Yet... perhaps no greater love for this moment
Whether it seem strange or familiar
Than mine
A Path So Well Lit - Sometimes the path
Is so well lit
With little thought
I follow it
And then it ends
So I arrive
At places
Unexpected
Moon & Shadow - In the warmth of a summer night
We picnic on the pier
A gathering of family and friends
Me, set apart, just pondering
We are all just shadows
In the moonlight
Beneath a darkening sky
Of stars and cloud
All in motion, even I
In this moment fixed in time
Which has no memory
Or destiny
Clouds Whispering - A rocky beach
A sleepy sea
A sulfur sky
And cobalt high
Clouds whispering
Breathe in the air
My body sings
With the beauty
Of existence
Frozen ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #128 - Sometimes
The ripples of change
Become frozen
Caught in time
Like the waves
Lapping up on the fringe
Of a freezing lake
And I am the ship
Caught in arctic ice
Waiting out the season
Hoping for the sea to open
Stillness - Sometimes
I wonder
If I be still
For just a moment longer
If I can be present
In all this shadow and blur
Will the world make more sense
Will anyone see
Me
Point of Recognition - Where was I?
When I shot this?
Like waking up
In a strange bed
In a strange room
Trying to find
That one thing
That one point
Of recognition
A silhouette
Bicycle rickshaw
India
Eventide - Afterglow
Eventide
Drifting in
Endless calm
An in-drawn breath
A soft exhale
Mind so still
No rippling
In nature's thrall
Eyes glistening
All in a Sunset - I feel the calm
The blue cool
The amber warmth
And the universe
All around me
And then
I remember
I am the universe
I am the cool
And the warmth
I am the calm
Imagine - Oh what a gift
Imagination is
To take the world
And bend it
To make what is not
Into what is
Blemish ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #127 - Vibrant rainbow spans the sky
Colours smooth (though lacking green)
Broken only by small clouds
Blemish on a model's cheek
Mirrors ferry, homeward bound
Into the Heights - A ridge to climb
Into the heights
And touch the sky
Dangerous
Treacherous
Perilous
But such is life
Even safe on
Valley floor
Respect the risks
Then undertake
To peak the crest
Clarity - There’s a spiritual sensation of connectedness I get from time to time, a few moments in time that feel as though I’m connected to and can sense the existence of all things, an awareness that there is a grand spiritual reality...
Sweet Light - Spectacular
The star
Which gives us life
And cobalt sky
Which warms us
From the chills
Of winter snows
And greens the Earth
So richly lush
With verdigris
But light
The centre
Of all things
Needs not a star
To warm the heart
Or dispel the shadows
Of the mind
Halfway from the Valley to the Sky - A different world
Halfway from the valley
To the sky
The snow white expanse
Promising the bliss
Of expansive powder
In my mind
Are endless turns
Each a moment
Of transformation
Of perfect zen
Black and White Tusk - Oh, this once molten heart
Heat like the sun
Once burned within
Now hardened black
In icy shroud
Ironic white provides no light
Depth ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #126 - I seek the depths
Plummet through the layers
Finding comfort
In the silent saturation
Of unknowns
To be discovered
Selling Something to Someone - It is said
Anywhere you stand in China
You will see at least
One human being
But I noticed
Anywhere I stood in India
I could see someone
Selling something
To someone else
Crossing Boundaries - To explore other worlds
I must cross the boundaries
I've erected to contain my own
Peering Back - I observe the world
People, structures, nature
Though people most of all
I peer into their world
Try to understand what they see
How they see it
It helps me see
The nuance in my own world
In my own perception
Broken Hearted - A broken heart
Cares not
Whether the beloved
Wears a crown
Or a t-shirt
And dungarees
The world seems
No smaller, no larger
As it crashes down