Tag: mountains

Just my thoughts and my eye

In dappled sun
Breezes ruffle
Pastel petals
Stems buck and sway

Camera and I lying
In long grass
Ants trundling
Across thighs and calves

Dragonflies
Hover and dart
Seek mosquitoes
And deer flies

Tempting it is
To call this landscape
Barren

No life
No green
No creatures
Scurrying

(Or so it seems)

In this land
Of such magnificence
Even the mighty
Know humility

Sometimes
I prefer
Mystery
Envelopes me

In this shroud
Of anonymity
I allow
The self is free

To explore
Deepest edge
Furthest field
Darkest path

So I may
Emerge again
Into light
Lit within

With every sunset
I am reminded
There will always be
Another hurdle
And another opportunity
To clear one

I’m not sure
Whether I’m alone now
Because I’m tired of getting hurt
Or I’m tired of hurting others
Somewhere I lost track
Maybe it’s both

I’m not sure
What needs to change
What needs to heal
What I need to fix

Sometimes
I wonder
If I know this planet
At all

Of course
I often manage
To imagine something
Stranger still

As time became time
In Ancestor’s dreaming
The void became sound
The sound became song
The Ancestors sang
The world into being

I wonder which god
With violent rhythm
And upending verse
Turned this sea bed on edge

They rise
Like a Wall
The Rockies

Towering
Above the land
Which for a thousand miles
Has known only sky
And a horizon
Beyond infinity

We enter here
By the millions
Entranced

Shadows in the sky

Where the sun
And the clouds
And the smoke
Interplay

Where the river
And the rails
Run in parallel
Display