Where once there was nothing
Sprouts delicate symbiosis
Emergent energy intertwined
Into nature’s tangled tattings
Blue green as earth’s beginnings
With antediluvian memories
Surrounding us unnoticed
In a lichen lace soliloquy
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #231: Nothing and #232: Emergent
There is no point in running
Because there’s no place to go
Trapped by our own behavior
In a state of internal limbo
While the world keeps turning
And nature rebounds
In our absence
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a word Challenge #226: Running
Where there was once a parking lot
An environmental education building
Now stands surrounded by a mass of water
As an ironic reminder
That everything is connected
and both actions and non-actions have consequences
Denial doesn’t change facts
Drowning in ignorance and greed
Climate change
Sea level rising
The naturalist shack
Returns to nature
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenges #221: Mass and #222: Connections
A surreal world
Seventy miles of broken
Fractured by the wind
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #201: Fractured
Delicate petals
Open in the morning sun
Beacons for a bee
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #198: Beacons
Catkins burst
Before the heat
Still spring
Man made heavens
A meretricious imitation
To trees covered in birdsong
Don’t get me wrong, I am in awe of the human capability to create beautiful art, but nothing compares to the cosmos which is what inspires our art in the first place. Waking up under a canopy of trees by a birdsong alarm is my idea of heaven (even if my old back is stiff from sleeping on the ground).
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #185: Heavens
Everyday struggles
The disconnect from nature
Restored by a camp
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #184: Dis Connect
Silvery
Rivulets fall
Upriver, life giving
Light runs through mountain
Veins
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #177: Upriver
Bleak
Erosion fences
Replace beautiful trees
In the name of
Progress
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #173: Fences
