Category: Olympus OM-2

Burn ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #38

Sometimes, the fire
It burns too hot
Can’t douse the flames
Can’t put it out

I walk away
And let it burn
It follows me
Burns up the world

But if I stay
And let it burn
It burns away
The fuel it’s fed

I wish I was
A bigger man
A brighter heart
A gentler hand

But every time
I find a wall
Which limits me
And makes me small

I push it back
A little way
Become a bigger
Man that day

In the desert lands
All gravel stone and sand
But for the cholla
In her prickly shrine

Sometimes
The chasm between
You and I
Seems so deep
Seems so wide

I cannot see
Into the depths
I cannot see
The other side

Even the old

familiar

roads change

So must I

along with them

or become lost

Oh, the places I can go
When all I bring
Is imagination
And a little inspiration…

I found this map
Of Cassiopeia
Fourth planet circling
Alpha Andromedae

With instructions
For activating
The wormhole
At Stonehenge

Ah, if only I had
The time and patience
Of Nature’s paintbrush
The glories I could create

In this precious slice
Of time allotted
I record her beauty
With all my skill

Sometimes
The way seems impassable
Formidable barriers
Impenetrable walls

But I stand here, now
Beyond so many
Impassable barriers
All along the way

Stone tells a story
Of a vast sea
Millions of years old
Millions of years ago

Layer upon layer
Of silt
Of time
Accumulating

Patterns in the stone
Regular and irregular

In form
In structure
In colour
In time

Beauty pens her poetry
Deftly in the nature of things