Sometimes
It is the flowers
I fail to see
For the trees
It is the flowers
I fail to see
For the trees
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Stars ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #102
Aided by
Small aperture
In this starburst
Am I reminded
The sun is just a star
In blackness infinite
Speckled with
Uncounted stars
And this Earth
We sometimes believed
Like no other
Solar satellite
But now are finding
More watery rocks
Each unique
Though, really
Only to slightest degree
So I stand here
On our pretty stone
With some billions friends
No, all family
I wonder how
We divide ourselves
Such finite passing presence
What small precious number we
Who twinkle in the darkness
Each of us a star
Unto ourselves
In our tiny blip of time
We have no space
For hateful folly
Or shall we die
Utterly alone
Perhaps unknown
Pass into oblivion
In this expanse
Of possibility
Small aperture
In this starburst
Am I reminded
The sun is just a star
In blackness infinite
Speckled with
Uncounted stars
And this Earth
We sometimes believed
Like no other
Solar satellite
But now are finding
More watery rocks
Each unique
Though, really
Only to slightest degree
So I stand here
On our pretty stone
With some billions friends
No, all family
I wonder how
We divide ourselves
Such finite passing presence
What small precious number we
Who twinkle in the darkness
Each of us a star
Unto ourselves
In our tiny blip of time
We have no space
For hateful folly
Or shall we die
Utterly alone
Perhaps unknown
Pass into oblivion
In this expanse
Of possibility
Rainbows ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #101
Sometimes
Even the appearance of a rainbow
Cannot dispel the darkness
So I plumb the darkness
Seeking the rainbow within
Dreaming the Land into Being
As time became time
In Ancestor’s dreaming
The void became sound
The sound became song
The Ancestors sang
The world into being
In Ancestor’s dreaming
The void became sound
The sound became song
The Ancestors sang
The world into being
I wonder which god
With violent rhythm
And upending verse
Turned this sea bed on edge
Gratitude ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #150
The sun rises into a cloud-softened sky
Gentle foothills roll lazily to a distant horizon
A solo journey through an ungentle darkness ends
As I arrive in the light I realize
I am no longer alone, was never really alone
That no one arrives in such light
Entirely alone
Gentle foothills roll lazily to a distant horizon
A solo journey through an ungentle darkness ends
As I arrive in the light I realize
I am no longer alone, was never really alone
That no one arrives in such light
Entirely alone
I am struck by the depth of gratitude
Rising like a sun with my own inner light
For the guidance, support and encouragement
Offered by family and friends and mentors
And the generous kindness of strangers
Who have made of themselves
Friends
I stand here
In the light
With my platoon
Ready to take on
Anything
Thank You
Gold ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #111
The light runs through the black
I remind myself of that
There’s gold within the rock
Riches to be found in the hardest of times
I remind myself of that
There’s gold within the rock
Riches to be found in the hardest of times
Barbwire and Corn
Headlights play
Over barbwire and corn
And I remember a bus driver
On the long way around
During spring semester
All our windows closed
His open wide while he
Takes deep nasal breaths
Over barbwire and corn
And I remember a bus driver
On the long way around
During spring semester
All our windows closed
His open wide while he
Takes deep nasal breaths
“Ahhh!”
He theatrically intones
Before another whistling breath
“Smell that fresh air!”
Musky dung beyond barbwire
Making us gag
As we pass his home
In a small development
Surrounded by farmer’s fields
“Mr. Abbott!” sang the chorus
Bringing Home
Night falls
On the Forest of Luminous Trees
The tungsten fireflies flit
Like comets
In a Milky Way sky
On the Forest of Luminous Trees
The tungsten fireflies flit
Like comets
In a Milky Way sky
On a world
Of alien beauties
We’ve given familiar names
So not to feel
So far from home
Mortality ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #100
Grey.
Smoky.
The smell of a campfire.
But the nearest fire set a hundred thousand trees alight, a hundred or more kilometers away. I wonder, was that one lightning? A cigarette? A carelessly managed fire?
Strange Imaginings
Sometimes
I wonder
If I know this planet
At all
I wonder
If I know this planet
At all
Of course
I often manage
To imagine something
Stranger still
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