Tag: Pic and a Word Challenge

Precipice ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #21

I cannot will my body
To stand at the edge
The red precipice
Must be 2,000 feet high

I crouch down
Inch forward
Lie flat
Wiggle further

And as I near the very edge
A chalk covered hand
Comes over the top
Taking a firm grip

Some mornings
I get out of bed
Begin the day
Clinging to what I have
Thinking that is tenacity

But if the coffee wakes me up
I remind myself to find a way
To reach a little further
Climb a little higher
Take another step forward

I wait
For the flood tide of tourists
Arriving on buses
Destined for Islands
And secluded beaches

Carrying their openness
And prejudice
With equal tenacity
Conscious only
Of their openness

Beauty in the beholder’s eye
As if we create the beauty

But Nature in all her ways
When left to her own devices
She paints and sculpts
Beauty undeniable

That is just the Way
The Dao, Nature’s way
Beautiful is
All that follows the Way

Bleeding Earth
Heat and minerals
Colour flows
Leaving trails

I flow through lives
Passion and presence
Broken love
Leaving trails

There is a moment
Between what has been
And what will come
When the hectic falls away

A time to reflect
A time to bask
A time to collect
And recollect

The intermittent rain comes down
Over millions of years, seems steady
Washing away
Uncovering
Leaving spires and hoodoos
Revealing forms underlying

The light may seem dim
And inaccessible
But there is always a path
To take me there

It is an angry sea
Whipped up
By a furious sky
And I…

I sink into my rage

A flower bloom
Of porcelain
A dozen tiles
Or more

A stupa grand
And towering
Each tile placed
By hands of men