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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Stillness


I slide into the wormhole
of nothingness. Escaping
from the debris of actions,
shards of emotions and the
startling unexpectedness
of consequences. It’s the
bottom of a lake. Unmoving.
The surface, still. Undented.
Thundering clouds and
twittering birds fly across
its glassy eye. All-seeing. 
I wait. The sky looms, puckers
and fades, impotent and wasted.
I wait some more. Civilizations
rise with clamouring intensity.
And fall. And scatter.
Bare-boned and bleached white.
Sinking into the obliterating sands
of obscurity. Eons pass. I wait
no more. Time has tunneled
into a pinprick of silence.
Tiny and vast. Like a tree
that has collapsed into a seed
and then some more until
there remains only
a possibility.

~~~


Saturday, July 20, 2013

Orchids at Singapore


I spent a pleasant hour at Singapore Airport shooting the orchids.

(click on the image to view the album)

Orchids at Singapore

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Amazing Grace

Amazing everything!


Thursday, July 04, 2013

Look at yourself and remember me


You have no idea how hard I've looked
for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to
the gold mine, or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like
taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my
soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me.

~ Rumi

Monday, July 01, 2013

Fireflies -haiku



in a cold heart stirs
flickering fireflies of hope
defeat slinks away

~~~

fireflies penning
arabesques for the night
only it can read

~~~