My Muses: Geology ~ In the best moments, like on the edge of the San Juan River gorge, that is the transformation I take with me, that feeling of personal divinity, as if I had touched the hand that makes perfection.
Tag: beauty
Leap of Faith
There is a place in Zion National Park. Angel’s Landing awaits you at the peak of a narrow band of rock thousands of feet tall. As exasperatingly beautiful as the view is, the hike … the hike is neither for the faint of heart, nor the squeamish of heights.
The Wide Ochre Land
I’ve heard it famously referred to as the wide brown land, but to me it is an expanse of ochre and red, tones more descriptive of its character. Australia is a rich land, but not overly saturated. Intense, but not glaring. One goes to ground here, becomes part of the earth, lives at a walker’s pace. Immersed in a hot bath of air, the heat fills my lungs, reddens my flesh, soothes my spirit.
Window and Wall
You throw yourself at life
With abandon
Maybe you hit the wall
Again and again
Leaving a bit of yourself behind
Every time
With abandon
Maybe you hit the wall
Again and again
Leaving a bit of yourself behind
Every time
But every time
You notice the window
The open space beyond it
The hopeful road
Leading somewhere promising
My Muses: Form
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge, Muse, poses a simple enough challenge, “So what’s your muse — what subject do you turn to frequently, more inspired each time?”
Who reminisces the foggy days?
On a bright sunny day
Under cloudless cobalt skies
A cool sea breeze
Taking the sting off the heat
Under cloudless cobalt skies
A cool sea breeze
Taking the sting off the heat
Bird song, children’s laughter and a bicycle
Reflections
The sun falls
On the Andaman Sea
Kicking up reflections
Of a day’s moments
On the Andaman Sea
Kicking up reflections
Of a day’s moments
The Tantalus Range
Tantalus
Earth’s icy saw blade
Cutting into cobalt skies
Earth’s icy saw blade
Cutting into cobalt skies
Pix to Words 