Category: Landscape

The Way Ahead

Sometimes the way ahead seems clear
I try to remind myself
The path of least resistance
Always seems clear

So I wonder
Am I sure to reach my goal
At the end of this valley

When the path to my goal
Lays shrouded in mist
I forge ahead

The path may be obscured
I may lose my way
Or become disoriented

I leave behind
Remnants of the past
Which moulder and decay
In lingering neglect

When I return
To pick them up
They are no longer
The same moments

I measure time
Not in terms of history
But by how much
I have left to do

In the gathering dusk
I am grateful
For a fast, wide lens
And a ridiculously high
ISO

Else I’d have never known
The depths of blue
The click of a shutter
Could create
In just half a second

There is nothing simpler
Nor more beautiful
Than two kids and a puck
On a small patch of ice
Cleared of snow
On a frozen lake
Anywhere in Canada

Tantalizing
Tantalus
Dragon-backed ridges
Under indigo
And ice

I stop here
Often
To Wonder
To be
Tantalized

I drink in the night
That elixir of possibilities
Unimaginable
By daylight
With a thirst
Unquenchable

It has been said
Space is the final frontier
But space is merely infinite
While the depths of being
Are unfathomable

The rock
Like clay
Tortured
By a
Toddler’s
Hand