Tag: travel

The Great Walls

There are beauties and ugliness
In this world
Beyond my ken; beyond my perception
As if protected by an impenetrable wall

There are thousands of miles of beach
Where no parasols are erected
To shade blankets
Coolers
And the sunburned

I want to be washed pure
The way a rocky shoreline
Chases all the blue from the ocean
Leaving a roiling, effervescent whiteness

Curiosity
May well have
Killed the cat

But it made
A man
Of the boy

Sometimes I wonder
At the need to travel
To other planets

This one is so alien
And unexplored

I love a road
Through wide open spaces
Where straight lines
Reel through the changes

I love a country that is big
That is grand
Where the sky
Makes love to land

I travel the world
Seeking beauty
Finding it in abundance

Then I come home
Where I live in it
But sometimes need

A reminder

I once thought of myself
As mind
As a being who thinks

I believed thought
Was the centre
Of my being

Until I began
To sense
The presence of existence itself

As I approach
The crow jeers
CAW CAW CAW!
Mocking bird

One more step

Sometimes we do conquer
Nature’s little trials
With graceful power and beauty
A blessed act of style

Should we grow too cocky
Nature, she will smile
With graceful power and beauty