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
Category: Architecture
Morning’s Welcome
The sun crests the sea
And in the light I see
The beacon stayed true
To guide us through
The darkling pass
And in the light I see
The beacon stayed true
To guide us through
The darkling pass
We navigated
The long night
To morning’s welcome
This new shore
Beckoning
Delicate Intricacies
The delicate intricacy
Of the hand-carved relief
Covering the walls
Was equal to the politics
Within them
And the lives of the people
Beyond them
Of the hand-carved relief
Covering the walls
Was equal to the politics
Within them
And the lives of the people
Beyond them
Now those
Outside the walls
Were not privy
To the intricacies
Within them
Because those
Inside the walls
Were apathetic
To the intricacies
Beyond them
Until the time came
When the intricacies
Beyond the walls
Galvanized
Into a single blunt force
Which felled first the walls
Then the delicate intricacies
Within them
Opening ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #252
Doors shut and barred
Windows sealed from within
A dead end
At the end
Of a narrow
Corridor
No retreat
No respite
No redress
Then a door opened
Beckoning
The voices within
Sang songs of hope
And possibility
Of healing
And renewal
Beyond the door
The way remained unclear
But the long, dark night
Of the alley
Was over
Crawling Into A Hole
A nook
An alcove
A cranny
A safe place
To hide away
While the unthinkable
Becomes inevitable
Anachronism
When the architecture
Makes a passenger jet
Lifting into the sky
Seem like an anachronism
From a time passed
So very long ago…
Mathematics ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #251
The mathematics
Of my conscious mind
Can be so very much more
Of my conscious mind
Can be so very much more
Ruthless
Than nature’s organic expressions
The subtle calculations
Of an incomprehensible unconscious
Little wonder
We have become such an affliction
On an incalculable beauty
Fluttering
She fluttered an eyelash
Yes, just the one
Not a wink
But a feathery whisper
Undetectable
To those not seeking it
As she knew I was
And my heart replied
With a flutter of its own
A quickening
Which rose to my flesh
Undetectable
To those not seeking it
As I knew she was
Emptiness
Of all the hardships
Created by the pandemic
It was the emptiness
Of time and space
Which nearly did him in
Created by the pandemic
It was the emptiness
Of time and space
Which nearly did him in
The connectionless void
In which the bump of elbows
Became an act of intimacy
Which made a smile detectable
Only by a gesture of the eyes
In which the bump of elbows
Became an act of intimacy
Which made a smile detectable
Only by a gesture of the eyes
So he filled the emptiness
With the one thing left to him
With the one thing left to him
Love
Love not for one or many
Nor even for himself
But for the pure delight
Of existence
Nor even for himself
But for the pure delight
Of existence
And that is how he learned
The true nature of
The true nature of
Love
Fear ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #250
The maw which devours me
Consumes my will
My strength
Is naught but the workings
Of my fearful mind
Consumes my will
My strength
Is naught but the workings
Of my fearful mind
I breathe
Speaking the words in my mind
Over the chatter of thoughts
Breathing in
Breathing out
Displacing the chatter
My thinking stills
So that the maw closes
Upon the vacuum
That is the peace
Of a quiet mind
Without fear
To sustain it
The maw dies
Revealed as an illusion
Created by fear
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