Category: Fujifilm X-T4

Shadow Explorers

We in our little windows
Of shared wonders
Bathed in common light

While some seek the shadows
To discover glories unknown

Then bring them into the light for all

I stand alone
Solitude in shadow
Cast by arcing stone

Find peace in gentle breeze
Wafting warmth from heated earth

Find beauty in nature’s chiseled landscape

Though the earth accepts my footfalls
Offers bedrock for my foundations
The moving sky
Holds my fascination
Source of dreamy possibility

A few steps beyond
My car parked at the trailhead
The day falls away

A tumult of stone
Fallen amongst the grasses
From ragged cliffs above

Ancient diminished crags
Once, perhaps, grand as snow capped horizon
First to soil, then to life, feeding hungry bison

Salted inner sea
Perturbed not at all
By even a breeze
Offers its peaceful cradle
To the failing sun

Great dead lake dying
Beneath a punishing sun
No relief in sight

The air
Briny scent of death

The water
Still, thick with salt

The sand
Crusted, brittle, shards sharp underfoot

But the skies
Azure brushed with cirrus wash

And the sun
A hot glitter off the ripples

A beach day
Nonetheless

Sunlight skitters
Off the rippled lake
As a flat stone thrown
From a practiced hand

I prefer the kind of spirituality
Which harbours no intention
To make me feel small
Or subject to the judgment of others
Not even gods

Just as I have no desire
To judge anyone
Not even myself

A condition
Which I am ever on the path
Of unlearning