Tag: Pukaskwa National Park

Stone ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #387

Beneath a granite sky
In a landscape of stone
I strive for the softness
Of water

Stone breaks the surface
Of a void expanse
Empty to the edge of nothingness

The spare rock
Forms a peak atop a slope
Extending down I know not how deep

So I dive
Into the depths
To find the foundation

Of me

So that I might rise
Knowing the nature of self
And walk the featureless plain of me

Into being

Occluded skies
Reflected in a secluded cove
Cold, still water
With the clarity of glass

Now I
In this diffuse, scattered light
See the depths in crisp detail

A bed of granite
Obscured by sand and silt

In this, I see myself

The bedrock of me
Beneath a sediment of memory

And these beneath the terrible weight
Of experiences so fully repressed
As to be rendered transparent

So I stir up the bottom
Cloud the water
See what patterns emerge
To reveal the dark matter that is the forgotten me

We skim the slate grey
Beneath a gloomy grey

In our crimson coats
On our speedy boat

Exuding a rainbow of glee

In the calm of a lakeshore afternoon
Even the gulls fall silent

Light breezes reveal in relief
Where ripples swath the glassy smooth

Warm exhalations condense in the chill
With measured breaths

Close eyes
Breathe in the peace

Distant buzz grows
Hull thuds against the lake
Casts sprays of white noise
Laughter rises in several tones

Then slowly fades away toward silence
Until the wake finds the rocky shore

Splash
Splash
Another splash

Now stillness
But for the breeze

And my breath

The infant Earth
Burps up her core
Lays down a shield of stone

Comes the ice
With crushing force
Carves relief into the shield

Finally, life returns
In league with time and weather
Draws detail upon the lines

Here I stand
On ancient land
To capture nature’s beauty