In a cavalcade of words
and images
snippets of sound
and profound, lugubrious
ideas, I, like those before me,
am being sculpted,
molded,
carved,
beaten,
fired
and ultimately tempered.
A wealth of knowledge
and a discerning mind are not
achieved in a
single, fateful stroke.
Arduous,
but worthwhile.
Painful,
but fruitful.
Crushing,
but strangely,
comfortingly,
astoundingly
calming.
With piercing pips and invisible wing-beats
a tiny bird flits from branch to branch, her beak
stuffed with worms and grubs
Her tiny brood awaits her in the
deep and fragrant
undergrowth, silent against the
slavering, bloody jaws
that so hungrily seek them
I stand silent,
still
Watching her scan the ferns and maple seedlings,
the cones and needles
moss, lichen and bits of fallen cedars.
She knows that I am here and somehow she understands
that I mean her no harm
Perhaps the mushrooms in my basket have convinced her...
And yet, it could be that my strange appearance,
my unexpected intrusion into her calm green world,
instead of eliciting f
There is a spring
welling up into my life
eternal, pure and clear
It starts from a row of rocks
mid-way through a walk
welling up into my life
eternal, pure and clear
It starts from a row of rocks
mid-way through a walk
at the end of a cul-de-sac
and flows cleanly and sweetly
life giving and bright,
soothing in its gentle acceptance
of things usually left unsaid
It starts from a mountain lake
shining, vibrant and alive with
gold glistening ripples of
uncatchable fish
and a summer sun
sliding out from behind the peaks
It starts from a deep canyon
alive with the smell of rivers,
campfires and cottonwoods
while the leaves sweetly age
a
In a cavalcade of words
and images
snippets of sound
and profound, lugubrious
ideas, I, like those before me,
am being sculpted,
molded,
carved,
beaten,
fired
and ultimately tempered.
A wealth of knowledge
and a discerning mind are not
achieved in a
single, fateful stroke.
Arduous,
but worthwhile.
Painful,
but fruitful.
Crushing,
but strangely,
comfortingly,
astoundingly
calming.
With piercing pips and invisible wing-beats
a tiny bird flits from branch to branch, her beak
stuffed with worms and grubs
Her tiny brood awaits her in the
deep and fragrant
undergrowth, silent against the
slavering, bloody jaws
that so hungrily seek them
I stand silent,
still
Watching her scan the ferns and maple seedlings,
the cones and needles
moss, lichen and bits of fallen cedars.
She knows that I am here and somehow she understands
that I mean her no harm
Perhaps the mushrooms in my basket have convinced her...
And yet, it could be that my strange appearance,
my unexpected intrusion into her calm green world,
instead of eliciting f
There is a spring
welling up into my life
eternal, pure and clear
It starts from a row of rocks
mid-way through a walk
welling up into my life
eternal, pure and clear
It starts from a row of rocks
mid-way through a walk
at the end of a cul-de-sac
and flows cleanly and sweetly
life giving and bright,
soothing in its gentle acceptance
of things usually left unsaid
It starts from a mountain lake
shining, vibrant and alive with
gold glistening ripples of
uncatchable fish
and a summer sun
sliding out from behind the peaks
It starts from a deep canyon
alive with the smell of rivers,
campfires and cottonwoods
while the leaves sweetly age
a