Tag: nature

The barest wisp of colour

Even on the grayest days
The barest wisp of colour
Provides beauty enough to

Breathe life into my spirit
Bring warmth into my heart
Displace despair with optimism

My camera captures
A tugboat
Held for all time
In a sea of gold

Like the dragonfly caught
In amber
From a time
No words remember

I am often reminded
Of the grandiosity
Nature embraces
The utter grace of it all

Grandiose nature
Makes me feel
Very, very
Small

From deep in the Earth
Driven by heat
Water bubbles up
Carrying the stuff of Earth

Depositing, Depositing, Depositing
On mounds and terraces
The beautiful stuff of Earth
Cools, solidifies, colours

She flitters
Carrying thimblefuls
To the flames

Like a dancer
In a deadly waltz
With blackness

I seek the road
Which takes me higher
Up to where the magic lives

And there take in
All that is
Spread out into infinity

I stand still
Losing my balance
As the world falls away
Beneath my feet

Eroding, eroding, eroding
All which had supported me
Until I am perched
On a pinnacle

I love a city
Which allows itself
To seem small

So that its setting
In all its glory
Becomes the tale

There are places
I like to go
When the world seems
A little grey

Places where
I always find
The colour
I’ve been missing

Dusk descends
Hard and fast
Like the rain

Clouds
And mountains
Mingle

In a waning light
The camera records
As a monochrome