Tag: British Columbia

Depth ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #126

I seek the depths
Plummet through the layers
Finding comfort
In the silent saturation
Of unknowns
To be discovered

The wind breaks the water
Like the water breaks the rock
Jagged and punishing

While I ride the storm
Sleek and smooth

A dulcet caress

Along this broken shore
I make my way
Stutter stride
Across uneven rock
Where scattered life
Though clinging, thrives

Much as I
On challenged path
Lose my balance
Then regained
A beacon there
Should day grow dark

The road
From where I love
To where I love
Passes through
A world I love

I fell in love
With an enigma
It was easy to love her
So long as she remained one

The beach
Sunshine and sand
Wind and waves
Blankets and bikinis
Children and sand castles
Umbrellas and Ray Bans

Chesterman
Not quite
Such a beach

White block

Black rock
Ensconced

Wind whistles
White capped crests

Sea slashed shore
Lacerated stone

Red cap warns

Three figures teeter on distant rock
Silent silhouettes
Animate without the subtlety of gesture
Barely beings
Tottering along
A knife’s edge horizon

Three lives there
Faceless beneath the clouds
Unknown
Unknowable
But for outlines
Against the sky

One drops off the world
Lost forever
To anonymity
But for the unnamed character
Forming in the theatre
Of my mind

I am but a man
No more than an Island
In space and time

An Island without shoreline
Whose only boundary is infinity

The same Island that is every other being
Who has ever existed
Who will ever exist

Caught up in the gloom
She went to the shore

Black rock
Charcoal sea
Flat grey sky

A scene to fit her mood
Remnants of a storm in passing

The waves, still high
Thrashed the shore
Flashes of brightness
In the monochromatic bleak

It occurred to her
Something needed to change