Tag: wonder

Trampled

Have you ever wondered
What it might be like
To get trampled
By a caterpillar?

I see the world
In ways my ancestors
Could not imagine

But I wonder too
At the worlds now gone
I cannot imagine

I share the long, shallow beach
With a few dozen souls
All of a demeanor
In their slow meander
Up and down the shoreline

Hands pocketed
Shoulders hunched
Voices hushed

They’re a beautiful sight
These denizens of stormy weather
There’s a strength
In their solemn wonder

Here where nature runs her course
Indifferent to the human presence
While the humans revel quietly
In hers

I look to the sky
Wondering
If the aliens will ever come

I look to the sea
Realizing
They’re already here

When my sense of wonder
Needs to be renewed
I rely on nature

In the failing twilight
Upon the farther shore
Warm lights rise
In the encroaching night

I wonder at the lives
Lived in the glow
Which to me

Seems just a dot
Reflected

Off a still sea

We small creatures
Of no small hubris
Construct our wonders
In the shadow
Of glories profound

I am truly happy
Only when seeking
The wonder of existence
Even the smallest
Only when feeding my awe
In which I become
Infinite

The heat of the day lingers
Even as the low haze
Filters the sunken sun

I stop for a moment
Lean up against the fender
In the dry, brittle air
While the engine tinks and cracks

I never tire
Of the small wonders this world offers

I wonder at the patterns in the sand
How they got there
The intricate harmonies of line and shape
What could create such beauty?

Then the wave comes
And I wonder anew
At the interplay of moving water and sand
The rivulets and eddies and smaller waves