In this great rock
Am I reminded
In steadfastness
Still may I rise
Am I reminded
In steadfastness
Still may I rise
Tag: nature
Giants ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #108
In this hard-scrabble place
Where little life lives
I walk amongst the lichen and scrub
Like a giant
On giant’s shoulders
All my world
Its worries and attachments
Lie far, far below
Where little life lives
I walk amongst the lichen and scrub
Like a giant
On giant’s shoulders
All my world
Its worries and attachments
Lie far, far below
I linger here
With the sun
My fading friend
As the cool night advances
I am clear and light
As the rarefied air
The Grey Between
In the black that’s without white
Only the grey between
I find my way seeking light
Though nothing bright here can be seen
With no colour
No hint of saturation
Only tone and faintest texture
Detail limited to imagination
Only the grey between
I find my way seeking light
Though nothing bright here can be seen
With no colour
No hint of saturation
Only tone and faintest texture
Detail limited to imagination
I find the beauty
In the lines
The forms
And open space
Which let me roam
Magic Castle
This golden hour
This magic light
Reminds me of
My brightest days
Times when I
Could do no wrong
Creative might
Insightful mind
This magic light
Reminds me of
My brightest days
Times when I
Could do no wrong
Creative might
Insightful mind
Beautiful Corridor
Confined by valleys
Trees and roads
Through narrow corridors
Can I roam
But all so beautiful
I can’t bemoan
The choices few
My pathway home
Trees and roads
Through narrow corridors
Can I roam
But all so beautiful
I can’t bemoan
The choices few
My pathway home
Nature’s World
Oh have I travelled
Far from home
To other worlds
Beyond imagination
Far from home
To other worlds
Beyond imagination
But never left
My own backyard
Nor taxed my powers
Of creation
Just let Nature
Take her course
Then revel in
Her machinations
Stars ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #102
Aided by
Small aperture
In this starburst
Am I reminded
The sun is just a star
In blackness infinite
Speckled with
Uncounted stars
And this Earth
We sometimes believed
Like no other
Solar satellite
But now are finding
More watery rocks
Each unique
Though, really
Only to slightest degree
So I stand here
On our pretty stone
With some billions friends
No, all family
I wonder how
We divide ourselves
Such finite passing presence
What small precious number we
Who twinkle in the darkness
Each of us a star
Unto ourselves
In our tiny blip of time
We have no space
For hateful folly
Or shall we die
Utterly alone
Perhaps unknown
Pass into oblivion
In this expanse
Of possibility
Small aperture
In this starburst
Am I reminded
The sun is just a star
In blackness infinite
Speckled with
Uncounted stars
And this Earth
We sometimes believed
Like no other
Solar satellite
But now are finding
More watery rocks
Each unique
Though, really
Only to slightest degree
So I stand here
On our pretty stone
With some billions friends
No, all family
I wonder how
We divide ourselves
Such finite passing presence
What small precious number we
Who twinkle in the darkness
Each of us a star
Unto ourselves
In our tiny blip of time
We have no space
For hateful folly
Or shall we die
Utterly alone
Perhaps unknown
Pass into oblivion
In this expanse
Of possibility
What the Veil Reveals
I want to know the world
With the clarity and vibrance
Of a postcard
But that is not the world
With the clarity and vibrance
Of a postcard
But that is not the world
I remind myself
The fog sometimes reveals
A scale and depth
Often obscured by detail
Mortality ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #100
Grey.
Smoky.
The smell of a campfire.
But the nearest fire set a hundred thousand trees alight, a hundred or more kilometers away. I wonder, was that one lightning? A cigarette? A carelessly managed fire?
Strange Imaginings
Sometimes
I wonder
If I know this planet
At all
I wonder
If I know this planet
At all
Of course
I often manage
To imagine something
Stranger still
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