Category: Landscape

Big ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #143

Sometimes

I’m confronted with it
So big
So far to go

So little time
How will I explore it all
How will I get there

A step
At a
Time

I don’t know
Just how far
That will take me

Whether
It will be
To the end

So best
To not
Stand still

Where there is romance and reminiscence
In a sunset
There is hope and possibility
In a sunrise

The sun settles softly into morning
Early, still quiet
I’m alone with the wind
With the waves
With my camera

I’ve seen a hundred shots
From just this spot
But none gifted with this light
Gifted with this atmosphere
Gifted with this glory

A fortune
Of time and place
Being there
In the moment
Camera in hand

I intend
To cross this barrenness
Knowing not what awaits
On the other side
Or if there is
An other side
I can reach

I stand on the edge
Of a hundred million years
Changing, changing, changing
Always change

One score and five thousand years ago
Human eyes came to see
Human hands learned to make

All our grandiose change
No match for nature’s hand

This strife
This discord
It’s a wall
A familiar obstruction
I’ve grown comfortable with

As comfortable as I am
With the window
And its pretty scene
Offering distraction
As respite

It occurs to me
Pass through the window

In the subtle hour
At day’s end
Serenity
Transcends presence
Transforms being

I bask
In expansion
Become vivid
In my finite
Infinity

Twisted
Gnarled

Rock and bough

Resilient
Adaptive

Outback
Beauty

On a grey day
I find a little sunshine
In some dark remnant of the past
Soon to be lost forever

On a grey day
I learn gratitude
For lessons of darkness
Which made of me a man
Who finds light
In the littlest things

Just the three of us
Spirit, mind and body
On a journey through
Space, time and possibility