Tag: change

Upriver ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #177

Against both tide and current
Headway slow and steady
Though the river hurries by

This life
This repetitious life
It cuts a swath
Erodes away
Possibilities

Call it a canyon
Or call it a rut
A pretty enough rut, you say
Perhaps… but still a rut

So I scamper out
Leaving a trail
Of dusty memory

Seeking the open vista above
The expanse of the big sky

A land of possibility

I stand on the edge
Of a hundred million years
Changing, changing, changing
Always change

One score and five thousand years ago
Human eyes came to see
Human hands learned to make

All our grandiose change
No match for nature’s hand

Sometimes
The ripples of change
Become frozen
Caught in time
Like the waves
Lapping up on the fringe
Of a freezing lake

And I am the ship
Caught in arctic ice
Waiting out the season
Hoping for the sea to open

To explore other worlds
I must cross the boundaries
I’ve erected to contain my own

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

Cattails sway
Moved by the breeze
Summer songs
Giving way
To crows and jays
While summer’s creatures
Burrow deep
Or fly away

Soothed
By gentle light
And subtle colour
Fall’s transition
Life retired
The air goes cold
Wafts of change
Await the spring
To be renewed