“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” ~ Native American Proverb Nothing clears the mind quite like a weekend in the mountains. A (surprisingly) stifling heater in the cabin didn’t hurt of course, but it just made the impact of walking out those doors and into the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Earth’
In Nature
Posted in Quote of the Week, tagged Earth, Mountains, Nature, Photography, Quotes, Wisdom on January 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Solstice Tanka
Posted in Poems, tagged Dance, Earth, Environment, Galford, Imagery, Inspiration, Love, Mother Earth, Nature, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Personification, Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Sensual, Sky, Summer, Summer Solstice, Sun, Tanka on June 21, 2011 | 23 Comments »
I wanted something suitably nature-oriented for this special One Shot Wednesday – since the party begins on Tuesday, after all, and this Tuesday is the summer solstice, the longest and (hopefully) most beautiful of days. My inspiration seemed cut off by grey clouds this morning, sadly, but with the afternoon there seems to have come [...]
Confession
Posted in Poems, tagged Admission, Confession, Earth, Guilt, History, Humanity, Hurt, Observations, One Shot Wednesday, One Stop Poetry, Pain, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Thoughts, World, Wrongs on December 14, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Humanity confessed disease. Sobered, the clay laughed, and bitterly it asked if that came with ease – no solemn song might ever heed its wrong. * My latest contribution to the wonderful One Shot Poetry Wednesdays! Once you’ve had a look, check out some of the other One Shot Poets as well–they’re a skilled bunch [...]
Midnight Mountain Ride
Posted in Photography, Poems, tagged Colorado, Dreams, Earth, Geology, History, Imagery, Imagination, King, Monday Poetry Potluck, Mountains, Nature, Night, Observations, People, Photography, Photos, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Ride, Society, Thoughts, Train, Waking, World, Writing on October 11, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Midnight ring nightingale screech of metal grind vestiges of slumber— in silent Chaos writhe the World all sheltered black, this Veil, it doth descend betwixt the Heavens and the Earth no more Fire, no more Song yet Dappled Emeralds gleam throughout the Haze of Waking this World rise, Higher and Higher tilting back, breathing in [...]
Elemental Elation
Posted in Poems, tagged Air, Dance, Earth, Elemental, Elements, Emotion, Environment, Existence, Fire, Flight, Harmony, Monday Poetry Potluck, Mother, Music, Nature, Observations, Peace, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Rage, Reflections, Soul, Storms, Swimming, Thoughts, Water, World, Writing on October 4, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Bear me up Rustling cavalcade of coalescing Music rush, on tempo speed These breaths across my skin. The harmony Of your exultation Gives me strength Beneath my wings. – Crystal flow Caress and coax The resolution of my being, Dive down into the deep. Crash upon The shores of apathy And stir upon us yet [...]
A Man, A King
Posted in Poems, tagged Arrogance, Blood, Control, Dominance, Earth, Fantasy, God, Humanity, Imagination, King, Kingdom, Labor, Life, Master, Medieval, Memory, Men, Monarchy, Monday Poetry Potluck, Mortality, Nobility, Observations, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Riches, Royalty, Sea, Servitude, Slave, Steel, Submission, Thoughts, Work, Writing on September 27, 2010 | 11 Comments »
What is a man but Flesh and bone gave breath; Such mortal beast To buck beneath The reins of my imagination. Cry out for me, ye bloodied hands I am the stones arise on emerald hills My flesh the graven gold Of toiling back and grinding axe. My blood be thee and thine All rivers [...]
Deception
Posted in Poems, tagged Control, Deception, Democracy, Demons, Devils, Dreams, Earth, Government, Hell, Introversion, Liars, Lies, Manipulation, Master, Mistrust, Nightmares, Observations, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Politicians, Politics, Reflections, Rome, Self-centered, Serpents, Servant, Spies, Submission, Sunset, Thoughts, Thursday Poets Rally, Writing on September 8, 2010 | 65 Comments »
The fire dips beneath the azure sea; All eyes turn to their own hands. No one spies the serpents slithering From the long stretched shadows Of a garden ripe with glistening fruit. Demons whisper in the peoples’ ears— The straw cast down, The crows descend. Fruit rots and garden fades— Ravens circle high above The [...]
Contained
Posted in Poems, tagged Books, College, Deadlines, Dreams, Earth, Knowledge, Laybrinth, Learning, Libraries, Library, Maze, MSU, MSU Library, Novels, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Secrets, Stacks, Students, Thoughts, Tomb, World, Writing on August 20, 2010 | 10 Comments »
The walls arise, stacked atop a pile of numbers– lettered maze enfold the secrets of the world between thy shifting corridors of papered thoughts and novel dreams. Fight your life to be entombed in shadowed corner fair locked beneath the earth– a cool, a dusted prisoner handled only vacantly by young eyes consumed by deadlines [...]
Upon the Precipice
Posted in Poems, tagged Arrogance, Body, Condescension, Courtship, Desire, Destruction, Dreams, Earth, Life, Looking down, Love, Lust, Mind, Observations, Obsession, People, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Precipice, Pride, Pursuit, Relationships, Romance, Self-destruction, Sky, Soul, Spurned, Thoughts, Writing on August 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Eyes open to the brink I stand Broken upon the edge And though the sky is beating down You are still above me Always looking down. Stretching for the dreams Beyond your clouds I burned within the strain This arrogance has wrought, And as the fire surged I took it for desire Obsession blinds Focus [...]
Desolation Life
Posted in Poems, tagged Battle, Cavalry, Creation, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Devastation, Earth, Flowers, Life, Light, Nature, One Shot Poetry, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Reincarnation, Revival, Sleep, Stampede, Thoughts, Waking, War, Writing on August 11, 2010 | 21 Comments »
This cavalry ride, This noble stride, Stretch wide upon the earth— Trembling thunder underfoot Amidst the shadows lightening fall. Death rides before the tip, Death roars beneath the arrow scorn And in the quailing devastation Moves the seeds of their creation. Bodies bloom like spattered roses But from the agony of annihilation Stirs the flowers–flourish, [...]
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