Tag: British Columbia

Blues

In the ocean blue
A reflection
Of a sky long lost
To the wake of progress

I make haste
Across the still water
Seeking the shores
Which absorb the ripples

Beyond them
Is a land secure from
The inadvertent effects
Of being

There
In the silent depths
I listen for the voices of insight
Beyond manifestation

In this oncoming night
When the sea seems
As big as the sky
And the absent sun
Has set the horizon
On fire

I think of you
The final throes of our daylight
Hoping you’ll return
From the long, dark night
With the promise
Of a new sun
Rising

This land
Which called to me
Then said, “Stay!”

To which I return
No matter how far
Astray

I wander
I seek
But carry always

This fair land
Which speaks my heart
Which I am, in all my being

The sky
A ceiling
Rock reaching
Oppressed by ice

Constrained
And confined
Horizon suggests
Warmth and possibility

Shadowed land
Scattered gentle highlights
Promising illumination
Hope prevails

The rock reaches
Resisting burden
Unflagging
Emergent

I find my way
Through the rockiness
Down the icy steeps
Traversing the flats

Along the way
Seeking the deep powder
The cruisable hard pack
The soft moguls

The challenge
Is not so much the hardships
But remembering
What trandscending
The hardships brings

Ripsaw peaks
Sunder ice
This land distressed
And yet at peace
Beguiles spirit
Releases soul
Inner silence
Serenity

For some
The mountains
Are there to ascend

For others
The ascent climaxes
With a beginning

Sometimes
The ecstasy
Is in the descent

Early season
Symphony of snow
Graceful waltzing arcs
Vigorous staccato bumps
Rhythms and melodies
Of edge and wax

What goes up
Gets to come down