Category: Olympus OM-2

Like Clouds in the Sky

The Earth boils up
Billowing
Like clouds in the sky

There are worlds I’ll never know
Existing all around me

My eyes, they cannot see
The fine details
In just a narrow band
Of frequencies

Where sun and sea and land meet
Where the waves roll in
And break on rocky shores
Under the sun’s illuminating grace

I find the rhythm of being

I have these dreams
Dim and dark
Or are they memories?

Of a battle
And a castle
Shrouded in grey

But
For fires
Raging

And my loved one
There
Life threatened

On a cold grey
Wet dark day
Some places
Invite me

Come inside
It’s warm
And dry
And cozy

To my eye
The wall is solid
To my hand
The rock, impenetrable

To a neutrino
The space between the atoms
Seems like the emptiness
Between the stars

I am often reminded
Of the grandiosity
Nature embraces
The utter grace of it all

Grandiose nature
Makes me feel
Very, very
Small

From deep in the Earth
Driven by heat
Water bubbles up
Carrying the stuff of Earth

Depositing, Depositing, Depositing
On mounds and terraces
The beautiful stuff of Earth
Cools, solidifies, colours

Under a sky
So ridiculously
Canary, Amber and Orange
My presence seems
To be the true miracle

How is it possible
There is such glory
In this universe
And how improbable is it
That I am its witness?

Time seems so merciless
And malicious

Until I look again
And see the beauty
In the dilapidated
The strength
In the distressed
The resilience
In the rusted