Headlamp leading footsteps downward Air thick with an Impenetrable skin Seams of black unzipped Precious compacted life Of million years scarred Set ablaze in minutes
Living beings coal face Tends to 12 score beached Generations breeching Cool skin of sea Final resting shore Years combined between Ages of whales reach Thousands ever since 50 million years ago Our meddling unseen
Sitting with cool tears Echoing words pouring Into my ears Frontier human carrying Dissapointments Reverberate through My body like funeral Rhythym yet still My heart is beating For the innocent Plight of the whales Putting all our cries Into mere proportion Considering the noise Of their calls Each to each Upon passing Surge waylaid Swell or manmade?
Silvery white and grey Blanket of down Above me Puffs of cloud Stationary Not looming Cocooning City scurrying Beneath Time lapse Of tears shed By morning Endless spiral Upwards Of anticipation Elation and goodbye Suddenly falling Into realisation The sky of mind Turns gray Shades of it Dark yet illuminating A serene delight Slow moving picture Time lapse photography Of memories Captured for only A moment Every time You walk away
Time to grow Time to fade Feelings like flowers Let me elucidate A green landscape Peppered with potential An open heart willing To be known and loved Scattering of seeds Planting of breeze Intentionality Some buried by bird Fly by or high wire No matter the arrival In style or shy Perrenial or constant Populated first Or exotic arrival All living thoughts And buried hopes Are retained in soil Of treasured memories Forever to promote New growth for next Generation Time to grow Time to fade Their worth Never erased
I fell into a dreaming pool Floundered in the depths Searched for hidden seams of gold Along the rocky cleft Carved our names inside a cave Where weary travellers rest Forever know, though far to go This pinnacle true test
Love as many as you will As long as rising sun Guides you Even the ocean has bounds Its depths seem endless Its limits rest on sand Force of waves dance Expectantly Why wait on shore To dive Come on in With me you will always Have a hand to hold Through riptide spin No treasure find Empty shells Shine on mantle sill Most glorious gems Revealed between Two smiles facing Our tides move quickly Back and forth Silently Though swell and surge Nourishing daily Its limits sketched In seagrass on gentle Slopes of sandy canvas Moving ever closer Going forward
All things an old growth love will do Give shelter from driving winds Hail and smothering snow Hide a sapling in the shade and force it up on show Insubstantial frame Prone to bend, bleed and burn Undiscerning firestorm One in one hundred flood Innocent marsupials breeding Forest elder tends young The canopy maturing Channeling the pure sweet rain Into tendrils for feeding Look up wonder and observe Generations time laid bare Tender skin of wood Precious to the earth And all our cares
Planted deep where No one can upheave Tiny speck of life Revealed So hardy grows up Hundredfold Deprived of light Flourescent white Glows in the night Love kindled Never tended Knows the only Way is up
Count the stars of heaven 