Tag: nature

Atmosphere ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #32

There is a mood
No
An atmosphere
To existence

An atmosphere I choose

An atmosphere within which
All events occur
And through which
All events are perceived

I take the darkened path
Knowing illumination
Will guide my way

The light

Of guides
Of friends
Of family

We soar
Between
Mountains
Between
Layers
Of cloud

Between
Wonderlands

In a
Bright
Red
Box

There is a future
We have already created
In which the sea
Becomes our enemy

In the blue calm twilight
Of a winter’s day
The scraggle of barren branches
Reminds me

Of hardscrabble lives
For creatures without fire, food and shelter
And the human beings who cannot afford them

As the last light fails
I go tunneling in the dark
Spelunking with my camera
Seeking twilit beauty
And the exquisite world
Only the tunnelers can see

Transfixed by the tumbling
Flecks of pulverized shell
Riding gentle wavelets
On a wide, shallow beach

Heavier than water
Lighter than sand
Carried by forces
Greater than they

There are places
Which seem an endless space
Like the land goes on forever
Into nothingness

But when I look more closely
Therein lies the beauty
I see the endless changes
And nothing less

In a duel of longevity
Between stone and the living
I would never bet
On life not winning

Though life seems so
Ephemeral
While stone seems so
Well, eternal

Howe Sound Blues ~ A video collage of poetry and photographs featuring the Sea to Sky Highway.