Posted in Spring, tagged alive with colour, contemplation, impressionistic, monochromatic landscape, photography, serviceberry, spring takes flight, writing on March 30, 2012| 5 Comments »
Serviceberry petals are poised to take flight, to alight in moist spring air.
They will soar as far as the wind and their aerodynamic contours
will take them, before settling onto a monochromatic landscape,
sparking it alive with colour;
setting in motion spring’s impressionistic transition
from winter’s dulcet monotone to summer’s vibrancy.
Posted in Spring, tagged betterment of the body, contemplation, photography, reaching arms, the human collective, together, true calling, writing on March 28, 2012| 2 Comments »
A thousand reaching arms, all from the same body;
all stretching together for the betterment of that body.
Stretching for sunlight, clamouring to feed the collective.
This innate drive is also within all of us, the human collective.
Imagine what we could achieve by following this true and natural calling;
by reaching out together.
Posted in Spring, tagged assembling, contemplation, gather at the river, lives, photography, simple beauty, together with purpose, writing on March 26, 2012| 2 Comments »
Oh, shall we gather at the river, the beautiful, the beautiful river . . .
There is a simple beauty in gathering; the assembling of similar beings,
loosely aligned, together with relative purpose.
The intent, the function and the form coalesce to make patterns
that reinforce the significant parts of our lives.
Yes, shall we gather.
Posted in Spring, tagged awesome powers, breeze, contemplation, forces of nature, photography, pull of the moon, sunlight, writing on March 23, 2012| 1 Comment »
We most often notice the forces of nature when they appear to us
on a grand scale – disrupting, scaring or impressing us.
Those awesome powers are with us all the time, however.
Whether it be a light breeze that has been pushed at us from a land
on the other side of the earth, a ray of sunlight that travelled millions of miles
to warm our face or the creeping advancement of tidal water, tons of it
inched on by the staggering pull of the moon so far away in the sky.
Posted in Spring, tagged contemplation, decorates, delicate, humble, ice, photography, spring, writing on March 21, 2012| 5 Comments »
The last ice of the season decorates the coastline haphazardly;
lounging on rocks, floating half-submerged in the water.
It is a delicate ice; not the burgeoning growth of early winter,
nor the substantial coverage of mid-winter.
It appears almost as an afterthought;
a humble ice that once dominated and now decorates.
Posted in Winter, tagged beauty, contemplation, dance of the seasons, following, grace, ice, leading, moss, photography, writing on March 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Now is a time for the seasons to dance.
Is the ice encroaching or melting back?
Is the moss pushing forward or about to be held in icy repose?
All of the above.
The seasons move rhythmically back and forth throughout the year
– taking turns leading and following –
in a timeless procession of grace and beauty.
Posted in Winter, tagged contemplation, interactions with others, lichen, natural, photography, sediment, writing on March 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Blue water is brown with sediment; grey rock is red with lichen.
Our interactions with others colour us and make us more interesting.
Imagine the water ‘pure’ like bottled;
picture the rock clean and monochromatic like cement.
It’s just not natural.
Posted in Winter, tagged contemplation, journey, photography, sky, still, tide, travelling, wind, wondrous new surroundings, writing on March 14, 2012| 4 Comments »
A lone rock with sails of snow set out on a journey one day.
It came upon wondrous new surroundings
even though it stood still in its travels,
for the cloud-patterned sky, scents on the wind,
a flash of birds and fish, and the determined tide
all passed closely by.
Posted in Winter, tagged acceptance, change in our lives, contemplation, impermanence, natural flow, photography, transformation, writing on March 12, 2012| 1 Comment »
As the sun sets on winter, we can reflect on the fact that
change is omnipresent in our lives.
The change of seasons represents a natural flow of impermanence
that is uncomplicated, and easy to experience with acceptance.
This acceptance of change can then be applied to other,
often more difficult, types of transformation in our lives.
Posted in Winter, tagged ancient eyes, centuries on Earth, contemplation, nature's way, photography, sun and moon rising, wisdom, writing on March 9, 2012| 4 Comments »
What these ancient eyes must have seen over their centuries on Earth.
The sun and moon rising and setting some hundred thousand times?
Enough rain and snow falling to fill a sea? A parade of insects, animals, birds
and fish that would stretch for miles if seen all at once?
What wisdom must have accumulated through
the patient observance of nature’s way.
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