In the dry
I am not thirsty
In the heat
I am not too warm
I am not thirsty
In the heat
I am not too warm
In the sand
I dig in roots
In the sun
I bask in life
Tag: travel
Presence
I spend some time
In a place like this
A place which strips away
In a place like this
A place which strips away
Pretense
Distraction
Aggrandisement
Avarice
I find my presence
In the present
And in that presence
Is love
Moments of insignificance and immensity
It was in a moment like this one
About 20 years before
The air, it seemed on fire
Engulfing the West End towers
Their glass and steel alight
As if caught in amber
An atmosphere of amber
About 20 years before
The air, it seemed on fire
Engulfing the West End towers
Their glass and steel alight
As if caught in amber
An atmosphere of amber
A moment like this one
When I first awakened
To my connection
To everything
Small from a high vantage
Sometimes, seeing the world
From a position of power
Only makes me feel
Smaller
From a position of power
Only makes me feel
Smaller
Shipwrecked
Like shipwrecked sailors
Striving for the beach
Bodies too heavy
For the surface
Only the force of will
Keeping them afloat
Striving for the beach
Bodies too heavy
For the surface
Only the force of will
Keeping them afloat
The will to live
Or the will to not die
Courage or fear
(I’m unsure which)
Drives them to the beach
Lungs filling with salt water
Muscles spent
Energy exhausted
Hugging the Coast
I love the roadways
Which hug the coastline
Where the breakers fall upon the rocks
So the sea-spray mists my windshield
Which hug the coastline
Where the breakers fall upon the rocks
So the sea-spray mists my windshield
I dance along the roly poly
Climb and dive and swerve and wiggle
Ocean by my side
Land rising and falling beneath my tires
Lines in the Sand
Nature draws lines in the sand
With exquisite finesse
With exquisite finesse
Captured by their beauty
Mindful of their warning
Red, Blue and Green
Vermilion
Cerulean
Verdant
Cerulean
Verdant
Poet’s words
For simple colours
Writ large
On an epic landscape
Somber ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #34
A somber shore
Caught in an endless grey sky
Descended down to the sea
Held there by whisperless calm
Caught in an endless grey sky
Descended down to the sea
Held there by whisperless calm
I hear the roil of white noise
Waves crashing through the broken rock
Source obscured and muffled by darkened boughs
Clinging thickly to rising land
Without Black or White
On a day
Without black or white
Of greys and muted greens
An uncertain horizon
Haze obscuring
Without black or white
Of greys and muted greens
An uncertain horizon
Haze obscuring
I realize
The beauty that is the world
The perfection that it is to live
Even without clarity
Certainty or conviction
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