A derelict sign
On this derelict highway
No more home made pie
On this derelict highway
No more home made pie
Tag: United States of America
The Mother Road
01:39 Windmill RV Park; McLean, Texas :: 17 SEP 97
John Steinbeck devoted a full chapter of his epic roadtrip, The Grapes of Wrath, to Route 66. Five words of that chapter — three words, really — captured everyone’s imagination. Three words.
The Mother Road
“66 is the mother road,” wrote Steinbeck. Poetry. Evocation.
Markers
Markers
One erected
One abandoned
One erected
One abandoned
I leave a trail
I follow one
I leave a mark
I seek one
I know my place
Where I am
Where I’ve been
Where I’m going
By the markers
Finger Painting
The canyon walls were a run of colours, as if, in a fit of whimsy, Mother Nature had just kept going with the finger paint, like the kindergarten child whose teacher didn’t know when to take the paper away.
Stolid or Fluid
Hard
Solid
Stolid
Resolute
Solid
Stolid
Resolute
All such admirable
Qualities of stone
Though I prefer
Soft
Supple
Flowing
Fluid
Life Springs
I learn to let life flow where it must
Knowing, like water, it can only go
Where the landscape allows it
Knowing, like water, it can only go
Where the landscape allows it
Water will not run uphill
It will not run fast across a plain
It will not run at all
Where no rain falls
Comfortable Paths
Sometimes
It takes a lot of exploring
To find the comfortable path
It takes a lot of exploring
To find the comfortable path
But the comfortable path
Is not always the best path
Or the true path
So I try to remember
Keep exploring
Castles ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #44
A long shallow beach in the summertime
Children splash and laugh
Swim and frolic
Lay out on towels
In the hot sun
Browning young skin
On the fine grey sand
Children splash and laugh
Swim and frolic
Lay out on towels
In the hot sun
Browning young skin
On the fine grey sand
I the child
Dig down into the beach
Find the water
Swirl sand into slurry
Lift it out
Dripping from fingertips
An expansive beauty
I try to piece together
One seamless image of the world
From photographs taken
Miles and years apart
One seamless image of the world
From photographs taken
Miles and years apart
Edges unaligned
Contexts out of reference
Colours unbalanced
Pix to Words 