Tag: nature

Nature’s Lovely Hand

It is a landscape made
Of sparse rain and heat

Yet over time,
This brush and paint
Create a land
Of uncommon beauty

Sometimes I just like to sit back
And marvel at Nature’s sense of fun
Her playful way with shape and form
Her vivacious turns with landscape

In the calm after
Clouds trail listlessly
Lying low in the valleys
Or spread thinly in the sky
While the sun’s last rays
Glimmer off the glassy ocean

Roaring down the sound
With angry ferocity
Kicking up white caps
Driving breakers onto shore

I lean into the attacking wind
Hold the camera steady
As the battalion of clouds
Advance, malice intended

The indigo and violet of night
Chase the furious sun from the sky
Livid oranges and yellows
Cling to the horizon
But soon enough are vanquished

It’s only time, you know
That perfect line in nature
Whatever the process which created it
Whether physics, chemistry or biology

The line is just a moment in time
Created over time
And this moment
Is simply a snapshot

Rising out of a fantastical landscape
Of weathered granite, gravel and scrub
The Joshua Tree

Like a gnarled old man
The elder of the land
With a mighty presence

It is nature which most often
Takes away my breath
With feats of scale
And magnificence

Sometimes, even we small creatures
We engineers and builders
With concrete and steel
Overcome mighty nature

Fitzsimmons Creek
Cavorts and frolics
Over one thousand feet below

Betwixt and between
Whistler and Blackcomb
And miles of untracked snow

I am a being of the night
My energy rises when
Illuminated
By moonlight
And starshine