Infused with tones, hues
Serene, sublime, the path fools
Predator hides, waits
Within fresh green, gold
Hidden by nature, beauty, bold
He captures, sedates
Beyond garden’s edge
Shadowed and dewy, the ledge
Where remains her fate
Pay attention
Feb 212012
Feb 142012
- Hydrangeas in Florence, Photo by Kim Nelson
Walking this path
With you
Has revealed
Full earthly joy
Our connection, the lath
Block, glue
Of a life
Hardship daren’t destroy
Challenges pass
We eschew
Falling victim
No blaming employ
Time moves fast
We two
Keep the deal
We adore, we enjoy
It is good.
Feb 102012
I’ll climb up the ladder
Stainless and tall
With a bottle of wine in my hand
Then sit on the roof
In wonder and awe
Gazing out at the stark desert land
I’ll sip and I’ll ponder
The beauty beyond
Watch the deer and the bobcat glide by
I’ll listen intently
To nighthawks and owls
As the bats flit across twilight sky
Here in Sonora
Harsh, exquisite, bold
I’ll take it all in
On this journey towards old
Jan 122012
Photo by Kim Nelson, Tucson AZ
Formed
of
dissonance,
their lofty,
soft appearance
does deceive
For in the eyewall
past the core,
winds ~
fierce velocity
achieve
On occasion,
The well-grounded
get a sense
of the discord
But another’s forecast
cannot calm
storm brewing
untoward
Jan 112012
Photo by Kim Nelson ~ Malaga, Spain
I wondered about the challenges ~ social, emotional, physical ~ of living outside the norm, homeless, when I snapped this photo in late spring, 2011. This poem shares some of that silent pondering.
Wild hearts
beat brutal,
sentimental thoughts
aside
Cozying up
is futile
the aggressor has
his pride
Trusting predator
tolls death-knell
in this milieu
fierce and wide
Neither sullen,
angry, grudging,
just survival
tacks applied
No emotion
*Inspired by Three Word Wednesday ~ Brutal, Sullen, Trust
