Tag: sports

Smile

Dozens of eyes
Focussed on the game
One pair finds the lens
With a Mona Lisa smile
The only face
I can’t quite read

In all the world
Few things seem heartier
Or more profoundly confounding
To the meek
Than a thrill-seeker
Seeking thrills

I find my way
Through the rockiness
Down the icy steeps
Traversing the flats

Along the way
Seeking the deep powder
The cruisable hard pack
The soft moguls

The challenge
Is not so much the hardships
But remembering
What trandscending
The hardships brings

Early season
Symphony of snow
Graceful waltzing arcs
Vigorous staccato bumps
Rhythms and melodies
Of edge and wax

What goes up
Gets to come down

This little thing
All jumbled in equipment
A little awkward seeming
A little bit disheveled

But point him down the hill
He’ll let them run
With surprising grace
And fluidity

Rolling hills
Mimic clouds
Though green
And lush
With grass
And sage

I roll through
On two wheels
Climbing up
Flowing down
Cornering
And gliding
In flight
Amongst
The verdant
Clouds

Some moments
Are just so
Oh Canada!

Like an oval
Cleared of snow
On the surface
Of a frozen lake

Fitzsimmons Creek
Cavorts and frolics
Over one thousand feet below

Betwixt and between
Whistler and Blackcomb
And miles of untracked snow

On a perfect powder day
And the sun breaking through
On the untracked line
You’ve been eyeing for months

The last thing on your mind
Is an avalanche
But it shouldn’t be