Tag: sunset

I, not this I

A different Tantalus
Every viewing
Just like
Everything else

No thing
No one
No place
No moment
No emotion
No insight

Is ever the same
One moment
To the next

Light and soft
My mood
My spirit
Charmed by the pastel sunset
Playing over
The gently rippled Sound

A rocky beach
A cloud strewn sky
A becalmed sea
And the last
Glimmering
Rays
Of a sun
Leaving the day

And I
Reflecting
Alone
In my thoughts
With nary
A care
But for the beauty
Of it all

I love being in a place
Where creativity thrives
Where paint and passion
Offer more vibrance and colour
Than nature’s grandest sunsets

It is a simple pier
On a rocky beach
The large stones worn smooth
By the rhythm of tides
And uncountable waves

Not a beach
For laying out towels
Basking in the sun
Building castles

In daylight
Pretty enough
As I drive by

Transient Light
Magic Light

Curious it seems
To experience
Relief so profound
Exposed to
Climate so unforgiving

Among the desert’s
Many victims:
My haughty ego
And petty worries

Matters unworthy
Of a life
Worth living

In this land of
Oh-so-pretty
The comings and
The goings become
As much the point of travel
As arriving

Diminutive
Am I within
This grand design
Of laws and matter

Such that I
Go travelling
A great expanse
Or one so seeming

In truth
A journey of
A thousand miles
Is hardly more than one

In a universe
Far wider still
Than light
Has ever gone

I seek the moments
When the infinite
Becomes the infinitesimal

When the All
Which is everything
Becomes the One
Which is nothingness

I seek the moments
When paradox
Becomes awareness

Then am I filled
With the insight of mystery
The light of darkness
Then being becomes non-being