Category Archives: Nature

Winter Bird

No silence like beauty in the alpine

Snowshoe edges slap in four four time

Below these banks, streams push boundaries

A pale sky promises more light tomorrow

This day is explored with slowed heartbeat

I surrender to forest tranquility

And you appear, Wisakedjak

Smoky gray ghost gliding on soft wings

To sing to me your whisper song

Lull me with your sweet corvid lullaby

Steal morning’s rations from my mitten grip🪶

River Man

He is dancing to the river bed beats

beneath a canopy of Douglas fir and Cedar

Step into his rhythms as you skip stones

over low rippling waves near sundown

Deep in an echo valley of moss and lichen

forest creatures pause to sway

River man brings joy to their hearts

in a sweet sorrowful serenading kindly way

Present Hiss

Writer philosophers birth idea volumes

defeat defiance despair existential disparity

Artists brushes soak in toxins

life cycle depiction or candid canvas prediction

Pleased to meet you, reality

Now it’s back to horses and dusty horse riders

Street battles wasting time

Stele entries forgotten or faded

No honoured heros names to add

Inspiration waits for the revival

Sipping tea in the wings