Tag: life

Sometimes a Flood

A trickle
Where sometimes a flood
In a land grown thirsty
While from the sun falls
Torrents of heat
And light
In a valley
Deeper than shadow

Life
And Love
Bring colour
To the grimmest day

Burned old crag
Half buried in the soot grey sand
Pitted by heavy rain
Issued from distressing sky

Black rocks
Tossed up on the shoreline
Decay in the surf

Still there is colour here
Kelly grass and golden straw

Life defies the gloom

A brittle star breaks
And within a few moments more
The 4 billion year legacy of life
That is my planet
Will be rendered to vapour and dust

As will I
And all I love
And all that loves me

Pity, that

But all I have in these final moments
Is love
Which I endeavour to take with me
Into eternity

An expanse of green
And brown beyond
Soon again to be green

Above
A sky
Promising the gift of rain

A smattering of structures
For shelter, work and storage
All to service the green

Occupants come and go
Seasons of family
And movement

Change

The cycle of life
Plays out in a rural field
Far from city markets

Barely a trickle
Below, broken evidence
Here sometimes a fall

Hard rock cradle of the canyon
Fluffy down comforter in the sky
Below, a river flows
Brings all I see and need to life

Embers
spark of life
renews within the valley

Enveloped
in the warm stone
of canyon walls

Emerging
as if from the womb
new life partum

Embraced
by the Earth
matron of time and being

Evermore
the cycle plays and plays again
birth, life, death, rebirth

Given just a day
We arrive
With howling glory

Our sun waxes
Then wanes
And in the end
Extinguished

Though in the final moments
Perhaps an opportunity
To reprise the beauty
That was and is
The magical light
Of our manifestation

Gentle lines
In weathered stone
A beauty marked
By time

Patinaed, etched
Distressed
By life and the elements
Beautiful all the more