In a big country
Even a storm’s aftermath
Writes itself large
On the landscape
Even a storm’s aftermath
Writes itself large
On the landscape
Tag: mountains
Sea to Sky
In the land of Sea to Sky
When clouds hang low
They obscure the mountains high
While down below
The world seems grey
The sun is there
It picks its way
Highlights on the ocean waves
Amber on horizon waits
While snow still clings
To rocky slopes
I drive on home
To ponder tropes
When clouds hang low
They obscure the mountains high
While down below
The world seems grey
The sun is there
It picks its way
Highlights on the ocean waves
Amber on horizon waits
While snow still clings
To rocky slopes
I drive on home
To ponder tropes
Forbidden ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #68
I sidle up
To places forbidden
Marvel and wonder
So much grander
More formidable
Than I
To places forbidden
Marvel and wonder
So much grander
More formidable
Than I
The places
The people
Who challenge them
Whether they succeed
Or fail
Whistler Valley
Day comes to end
In hyper-blue
And gleaming amber
In hyper-blue
And gleaming amber
Icy wind rips
Up the valley floor
Churning turquoise and obsidian
Beneath the placid azure
Of a witness sky
Waiting for the stars
Incomprehensible Perfection
I’ve spent all my life
Learning the craft of creation
But how can mere reason
And artistry compete
With the simple gestures
Great and small
Of nature
Learning the craft of creation
But how can mere reason
And artistry compete
With the simple gestures
Great and small
Of nature
I have just the small talent
To capture in image
And evoke in word
An incomprehensible
Perfection
Armchair of Golden Dreams
Sometimes I just sit back
In my armchair of golden dreams
To take in all the splendour
The view from there is wonderful
In my armchair of golden dreams
To take in all the splendour
The view from there is wonderful
To a practitioner of Tendai
Everything is wonderful
Everything is wonderful
~ Saichō
9th Century Japanese Buddhist monk
Founder of Tendai school of Buddhism
9th Century Japanese Buddhist monk
Founder of Tendai school of Buddhism
Oh Canada
I came
For big mountains
And the deep deep snow
For big mountains
And the deep deep snow
I stayed
For the kindness
And the deep deep grow
Faery Breath
The mist roiled down the valley
Flowing through the trees
Like faery breath
Settling over the village
Whose inhabitants slept
A night of aimless dreams
Then awoke with the terrors
Of the previous days
Quietly rescinded
Flowing through the trees
Like faery breath
Settling over the village
Whose inhabitants slept
A night of aimless dreams
Then awoke with the terrors
Of the previous days
Quietly rescinded
Gone from memory
As if
They’d never
Happened
Formidable
There is nothing quite so formidable
As monumental terrain
In unfriendly weather
As monumental terrain
In unfriendly weather
Brooding Monochrome
I love the blue skies
Snow-capped peaks
Atop emerald mountains
Over turquoise sea
Snow-capped peaks
Atop emerald mountains
Over turquoise sea
But here is a rainforest
In this brooding monochrome
The nature of its beauty lies
And come to revel in it
Have I and many others
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