Category: Landscape

Unintended Shadows

I work hard
With intention
To express
And create

Heed artistry
Inscribe wisdom
Apply passion

I lay bricks
Upon a foundation
Build them up

Until they are taller
Than I

Until they are taller
Than trees

Until they are taller
Than mountains

Not to prove
That I am bigger
But in homage

To what is bigger
Than I

The raindrops fall
On lotus pads
Which float in place
On dappled gleam

A single flower
Still held in bud
Though petals fall
Onto the pond

They tarry there
Before they sink
And come to rest
To where they’ll feed
Next season’s bloom

The world surprises me
From almost every angle
At almost any time
I take a look at it

When it fails to surprise
I discover, soon enough
I have not been looking
Deeply enough, long enough

They rise
Thrust up
By the collisions
Of Continents

Saw blades
Of rock
And ice
Lifted into sky

To travel between worlds
I take a ferry
From the big smoke
To a small Island
Then back again

Landing on an Island
Is always like
The quiet moment alone
In the living room
Just as the fridge turns off

Abandoned
This old derelict building
And I

Two hundred kilometers
Away from
Anywhere

Nothing but gravel, rock
A winding strip of bitumen
And heat

Crisp, chill air
Flames singe the night
Cinders crackle
Sparks rise
Filling starry sky

Notes issue
In gentle arpeggio
Strings plucked
And strummed

There is a magic
To movement
Through the waters
Of a narrow channel
Banked by mountains
And Islands
In the gathering darkness

Travel takes me
To places I could never imagine
Experiences I could never dream
Worlds which seem alien

So I stay
Experience all I can
Give reign to imagination
Until the alien seems mundane