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Nature’s Art

Time plays out
On compressed
And shattered
Chasm wall

Mineral
Patina
Like coffee
And tea stains

Rarely am I larger
Than when connected
To a landscape
Which makes me feel

small

Ocean, land and sky
What little more need I

Than love?

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

Blinded by the rain and fog
Tossed by the wind, adrift

With her sails all torn
The great tall ship
Her tiller shorn

She broke her back
Upon the stone

From my little perch
Above the black rock and sand
Where the surf runs to foam
And the blue sky peeks through the clouds

I watch the Earth breathe
Breathing in with the flood
Breathing out with the ebb
The eternal dance
Of the sea upon the shore

I watch the seagull
Soar so effortlessly
Riding the air
As if its currents
Are visible to him

I wish, for a moment
That his grace was mine
That his freedom of flight
Was something I could experience

It is easy enough to forget
What we are capable of
Without all the machines
And technologies of the massive

Such exquisite beauty

I have explored
The depths of the people I love
And discovered profound beauty

Still, there remain aspects unseen
Valleys undiscovered
Some never to be revealed