The winter wind
Whisks down the valley
Holding the ice at bay
Whisks down the valley
Holding the ice at bay
But the ducks
Won’t have much longer
To paddle in open water
Category: Landscape
Armchair of Golden Dreams
Sometimes I just sit back
In my armchair of golden dreams
To take in all the splendour
The view from there is wonderful
In my armchair of golden dreams
To take in all the splendour
The view from there is wonderful
To a practitioner of Tendai
Everything is wonderful
Everything is wonderful
~ Saichō
9th Century Japanese Buddhist monk
Founder of Tendai school of Buddhism
9th Century Japanese Buddhist monk
Founder of Tendai school of Buddhism
The Fate of Snowflakes
Snowflakes make their way
Down from clouded sky
Carried by the fateful winds
To find a place of rest
Perhaps atop the matted grass
Or come to know the branch and bough
Where they paint such pictures pretty
Down from clouded sky
Carried by the fateful winds
To find a place of rest
Perhaps atop the matted grass
Or come to know the branch and bough
Where they paint such pictures pretty
Others find their way to gentle currents
Return to form from which they spawned
Then seek again the path to sky
Transform, renewed, to lightest flakes
And try once more for beauty’s grace
Winter Dreaming
Revelling on Golden Dreams
Where languid winter river flows
Beneath soft flakes fluttering
Alighting like sweet Angel’s down
Upon needled bough and barren branch
Or cloak the water where it’s still
Where languid winter river flows
Beneath soft flakes fluttering
Alighting like sweet Angel’s down
Upon needled bough and barren branch
Or cloak the water where it’s still
Winter Crescent
Crisp and calm
I shiver at the camera’s side
Ever so gently, I try
Release the shutter
I shiver at the camera’s side
Ever so gently, I try
Release the shutter
But there it is
The little jiggle
In the capturing moment
Where the house light doubles
Only I will notice, too
The crescent moved
As did the evening star
And the clouds
Oh Canada
I came
For big mountains
And the deep deep snow
For big mountains
And the deep deep snow
I stayed
For the kindness
And the deep deep grow
Fractures and Facets
I see the world
Through multiple frames
Fractured and faceted
Broken and breaking
Through multiple frames
Fractured and faceted
Broken and breaking
Or is the world
Just as it is
And all the fractures and facets
All the breakage and breaking
Just me?
Islands ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #66
I make an Island of myself
Against every prohibition
Bask in the sun
On isolated shores
Against every prohibition
Bask in the sun
On isolated shores
Until the gloom rolls in
And I see the distant lights
Across the unbridged gap
Understanding at last
The vulnerability
Of this small Islet of Me
Amiss in a vast
And lonely sea
Obscured Crescent
In the settling darkness
I seek something to photograph
Anything to set words on a course
I seek something to photograph
Anything to set words on a course
Out of inspiration
Time and photographs exhausted
Post due on the morrow
At a favourite pull-out
Setting up sticks and cam
While the light fails
Utterly
One of these things…
Sometimes
The one thing that doesn’t belong
Somehow
Makes the whole thing better
The one thing that doesn’t belong
Somehow
Makes the whole thing better
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