Tag: solitude

Walking ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #204

The path is wide enough to share
I need not walk alone

I wonder now
In those quiet moments
Of public solitude
Am I often the object
Of a gaze

I let the tide
Carry my worries away
As the sea whispers
Sweet lullabies
In timeless rhythm

In dappled sun
Breezes ruffle
Pastel petals
Stems buck and sway

Camera and I lying
In long grass
Ants trundling
Across thighs and calves

Dragonflies
Hover and dart
Seek mosquitoes
And deer flies

I make an Island of myself
Against every prohibition
Bask in the sun
On isolated shores

Until the gloom rolls in
And I see the distant lights
Across the unbridged gap
Understanding at last

The vulnerability
Of this small Islet of Me
Amiss in a vast
And lonely sea

The last of fall’s vibrance
Lingering
The trail from the beach
Transitioning

From bathers and sun-seekers
The summer of crowds
To seekers of solitude
Contemplative connection
With Earth and sea
And self

This wintry road I travel by
Takes me through a country wide
Feathered here and there with buttes
Which break the plain to just one side

A single car approaches me
Then whistles by
The last I’ll see
Before sky fades and daylight flies