Hither I leave
This valley of death
And I will fear no future
This valley of death
And I will fear no future
For I bear not the past
Carry only hope, and my staff
Tenacity
Tag: Death Valley National Park
Winding ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #239
The road winds down
To valley floor
From there the way
Cannot be known
To valley floor
From there the way
Cannot be known
With scant resource
For alternates
My faith is firm
No other course
Now heart resolved
Courage mustered
With just one step
My fears dissolved
Stovepipe
Stovepipe is a planet of two suns
Rarely seen whole
Through dense clouds
Which never shed rain
Rarely seen whole
Through dense clouds
Which never shed rain
The stone marker
A memorial to those who had come
But otherwise left no mark
After the third colony failed
The only visitors would be
Passersby and tourists checking off a box
Compass Rose
Through chink in once unbroken gloom
Evanescent hopeful gleam
Turn of night
Will soon enough extinguish
Evanescent hopeful gleam
Turn of night
Will soon enough extinguish
Glow yet held clear and bright
Deep within a tempered heart
A compass knows the way to north
Light, the steel by which love reckons
Ever should the dark engulf
I shall find my way
Illumined by the rose within
No shadow may diminish
Night gives way to morning
Clouds soon enough are lifted
To the souls of seeking hearts
Horizon always beckons
Questions Asked by Earth and Me
How could such small things
Cause so much trauma
To something so big as me?
Cause so much trauma
To something so big as me?
We Hapless Beautiful Many
These awkward, fumbly, funny humans
Gawd! We hapless, beautiful many!
I love us all, with all our flaws
As we stumble through uneven times
Struggle to find our way in uncharted lands
Gawd! We hapless, beautiful many!
I love us all, with all our flaws
As we stumble through uneven times
Struggle to find our way in uncharted lands
Is there nothing quite so extraordinary
As a gathering of the confused
The bewildered
The shocked
All finding comfort and strength
Through others no stronger than we
We discover
In our collective strength
And courage
And wisdom
And tenacity
How much of these
We each ourselves posses
Armed with them
We super humans of faith
And possibility
We master what was unmasterable
We triumph when tragedy seemed certain
Oh, we magnificent beings
Who would ever suspect
We were capable of such things
When observing ourselves
In just the everyday?
None but ourselves
But that is all we need remember
Desert Mantra
Desert is my mantra
Distractions few
But for the wind that is breath
Breathing slowly, deeply
Distractions few
But for the wind that is breath
Breathing slowly, deeply
Patience is the desert
Eons shaped it
Storms come and go
Then desert returns to itself
Desert surprises
Not always hard sun and heat
Comfortable in the cold grey
Vivid hues follow a spring rain
Lifeless seems the desert
Lively to those who choose to see
Quiet in harmonious balance
Patient, resilient, and supple
Nature’s Art
Symmetry in asymmetry
Random chance and physical law
Ordered chaos is nature’s art
Random chance and physical law
Ordered chaos is nature’s art
tiny ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #218
How glorious am I
To be just one tiny speck
In all this immensity
To be just one tiny speck
In all this immensity
Tourists ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #217
Yea, though I walk
Through this valley of death
I will fear no hardship
Among these many tourists with me
While the road and the cafe comfort me
No shadow falls to Earth
But footfalls
Through this valley of death
I will fear no hardship
Among these many tourists with me
While the road and the cafe comfort me
No shadow falls to Earth
But footfalls
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