Tag: geology

The Impassable Way

Sometimes
The way seems impassable
Formidable barriers
Impenetrable walls

But I stand here, now
Beyond so many
Impassable barriers
All along the way

Stone tells a story
Of a vast sea
Millions of years old
Millions of years ago

Layer upon layer
Of silt
Of time
Accumulating

Scattered remnants
Run down and undermined
On burnt red gravel

Reminds me
Of Saturday morning
After a long week of long days

The Earth boils up
Billowing
Like clouds in the sky

The rock
Like clay
Tortured
By a
Toddler’s
Hand

Hot sun and hot water
Cascading down
One revealing
One creating
Terraces of minerals

One from Earth
One from Sky

The sky is source

sun, rain, wind
the seasons

And I?

I spread my branches
all grace and reverence

basking in magnificence

There are colours in the sky
I had never seen
And patterns in the world
I could never know

Until I looked through a lens
Clicked the shutter
And took the latent image home
To explore the possibilities

As if I’d landed
Billions of years ago
On a planet still young
And restless

When rock flowed as liquid
And the only solid lands
Were granite rafts
Floating on a molten orb

Hoarding precious moisture

Tenacious flora on the floor
Perpetual winds in the sky

Until rare torrents fall
Tumbling down the mountainsides
Muddy brown and rocky