Poetry

n stillness, I see That contemplating the real And the reflection Are one in the same I can live in one, from moment to moment The other is lost to eternity In the ripples created By the slightest disturbance

Read the signs Alter plans And seek Alternative accommodation

It rested there Nestled in the valley Watched over by ghost gums Fortified by mountains

You and the Wall were never Friends ~ Go around Climb over Blast a hole Do something different

In the dawn time When the light lies low Yet vibrant When the dew clings And the earth seems still

Three sentinels stand watch Over the graves of Cowboys and movie stars Where the Navajo stand fast

There are moments Of peace and solitude Of calm beauty and divinity Which allow us to connect

She comes, every day she can get a few minutes away from him, to watch the steady stream and wonder whether it will be despair or hope which drives her across the bridge, into the shroud of fog.

Some days, the bridged water She rises up. Diffuse, airborne and flowing like a boisterous tide She swallows the bridge whole Stanley Park Seawall Burrard Inlet & Lion's Gate Bridge Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, 2014 Another post inspired by this week's One Word Photo Challenge: Cloudy. And, once again, it works as a Forces of…

Tears On my cheek I don't know why I should know... Why? More tears On my cheek On location: Fringe BC Sugar Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, 2012 This is the second time I really resisted writing a post. Once again, the words won, which is a good thing... I think. Still, perhaps,…

But Nature She prefers you small So she hangs the massive sun low Beats its rays off the ocean And the mist rolling between the Islands Just so you know who God really is And what it takes to be one

On the rainforest floor Richly green and always moist It is not life which is persistent Must be tenacious Bold Resourceful But rather the sun On intermittent cloudless days Its light filtered by the canopy To fine, piercing rays As necessary to sustain life As a desert rain Capilano River Regional Park North Vancouver, British…

The red granite marble Rests in his bed of grasses and rock In the gum tree's shadow A marble that never rolled an inch Nor was shot from a giant's thumb Nor tossed by demonic whim Sitting here in the sun Sturdy as the crystalline block He once was on this very spot Time and…

Day ends in balance Blends violet and orange Night falls; stars unveiled Devil's Marbles Northern Territory, Australia Taken during travels, 1994

Good: live in the moment. Better: create moments worth living. Corollary: being in the moment creates better moments finds the beauty in a moment others miss. The Twelve Apostles Along the Great Ocean Road Victoria, Australia Taken during travels, 1995 I'd completed this poem before remembering this image had already inspired "I linger in…

Coiled Clenched Gripping Breath Breath Breathe Breathing Release Release Releasing Flow, flow Flowing Peace A-maze-ing Laughter Sculpture by Yue Minjun Davie & Denman West End, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, 2015