Swaddled in silky cloud
Upon a bed of supple grasses and pine
Earth
Cradle of my being
Category: Landscape
Ascension
I leave him
As an arc of energy
From the light
Which taught me love
Into a darkness
I once feared
But accepts me
With a grace
And love
Greater than any
I have known
Even his
And in that moment
The darkness itself
Becomes light
Sailing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #286
I follow
The land’s flow
Over swell
And hollow
This sea of soil
Calls out to
Hard men
Sailors of
The grasslands
Content to be at sea
Dance ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #285
I travel along
The thin edge of life
Steep hillside above
Roiling sea below
Confined
Yet
Content
Breakers rumble
And susurru
Their soothing song
While the drive
Becomes dance
With the curves
And rolls
Keeping time
As if the lilt
Of the waves
Sing the highway
Into being
Vulnerable ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #284
Some days the world seems
So very small and I feel
So vulnerable
Exploration
Destination calls
Beyond a pathless expanse
Beckoning promise
Memories Under Glass
I’m gone
And she stayed behind
Or I left her
I’m not sure
Which narrative
I like the least
I carry her still
A memory under glass
Shrouded and unrepentant
A story ended
Without end
And yet untold
But for the voice
In my heart
That won’t let her go
Layers ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #283
Gentle seas
Jagged peaks
Sky in turmoil
So go
The many layers
Of I
Leaving
We argue
Whether it is
The destination
Or the journey
That matters
But sometimes
We need only observe
The point of departure
As it recedes
Into the distance
Paddle ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #281
Day’s end
A gentle paddle
On glassy seas
My body
At peace
With my mind
With the land
With the water
With the sky
My spirit rises
To the surface
Of my being
My consciousness
Swirls in the essence
Of all that is
Like eddies
Hugging a paddle
In a vast
Bottomless
Sea
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