Category: Words

Red Sky and Rainbow

Red Sky and Rainbow
Bringing much needed rainfall
To Alberta badlands
And dinosaur bones

Thus they shone
Close to bone
A feat not
Taken lightly

Until
The rain
Did fail

There is little more satisfying
Than finding a little-used road
Crossing unfamiliar country

Such a road promises
Adventure, beauty, discovery
And the longer I follow it
The further inside myself I see

Sometimes
No words
Are forthcoming

Some images
Must be allowed
To speak for themselves

It is not the unknown
Which frightens me
But the stories I create
To comfort my ignorance

And so I forfeit
The beauty
And insight
I will never know

Sometimes I remember
The extent of my privilege
To cross a bridge
From here to somewhere

Other

Unfettered
Without risk
Without consequence
Without desperation

Somewhere better
To be
Somewhere different
To see

There is a road
Which goes
From here
To somewhere

Between
There seems
An expanse
Of nothingness

A place to come
Only to move on
To make plans
Buy provisions

A beach head
A landing
A portal
A gateway

The desert
Is simply
A ten thousand year
Drought

We are subtle lovers
The rain and I

I suppose that is the way
Of rainforest life

I hanker for the sun
Complain about the wet

But it exhausts me
when the sun stays too long