Category: Landscape

A beach without umbrellas

There are thousands of miles of beach
Where no parasols are erected
To shade blankets
Coolers
And the sunburned

I want to be washed pure
The way a rocky shoreline
Chases all the blue from the ocean
Leaving a roiling, effervescent whiteness

Sometimes I wonder
At the need to travel
To other planets

This one is so alien
And unexplored

Seven beautiful trees
One dying
One reduced
To a pile of wood

On a beautiful
Fall day
With a light blanketing
Of snow

A light snow
Fallen
On any landscape

Is like adding
Sprinkles
To frosting

From afar, they seem
Not so much
The Great Sand Dunes

Overshadowed by
The snow-capped mountains
Beyond

An early snow
In the high country
Under a low ceiling
Autumn still clinging to the trees

Winter gnaws at the bit
Eager, snorting
But the trees
Shed snow faster than leaves

I love a road
Through wide open spaces
Where straight lines
Reel through the changes

I love a country that is big
That is grand
Where the sky
Makes love to land

From Jingshan peak
They surveyed the world
From the heart
Of The Middle Kingdom

When I look back and see
How far I’ve climbed
It no longer matters
How much further I have to go

I have already climbed further
Than I had ever imagined