Category: Poetry

Detritus

The detritus
Which washes up
On my shore

I wonder at it
Why it won’t just
Wash away

Instead, oh instead
It just piles up
Detritus

On a hot desert highway
No wind in the air
Half way across Xinjiang
I stop to photograph there

Loading up with a new roll
I click, advancing the film
The shot I take is of a shadow world
I’m astride my bike as if in another realm

There are places
Which seem an endless space
Like the land goes on forever
Into nothingness

But when I look more closely
Therein lies the beauty
I see the endless changes
And nothing less

On a cycling tour of China
Across that vast country
I took a sidelong glance
At becoming a celebrity

In every little town
On every major street
No matter where I went
All eyes fell on me

In a duel of longevity
Between stone and the living
I would never bet
On life not winning

Though life seems so
Ephemeral
While stone seems so
Well, eternal

Howe Sound Blues ~ A video collage of poetry and photographs featuring the Sea to Sky Highway.

This world
Of dusky blues
And blackened greens

This world
In which
Imagination sings

This world
Appears to me
In dreams

From a cold blue sky
Falls a star-like sun
Into puffy clouds
Blanket sharp-ridged peaks

With the day near done
Laying back, warm sun
Close my weary eyes
Breathe a heavy sigh

Driving along the valley floor
Mountains and ridges rising above
So beautiful

Still, I always wonder
What’s on the other side?
What is the next valley like?

The land rolls
Like waves across the sea
Like the grasses
In staccato breeze

And there go we
Like sailors
Over the rolling land
Into unknown worlds