Sunday, April 5, 2015

Mountains are lessons in patience.


 ***

Steep
but not unkind

a mountain
waits for me

eternal,
patient,

unfazed
by my fumbling
my missteps
scraping
against her
face

as I slipped
  again
and again

trying to find
my way.


Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A hole in the fence is a gateway to adventure.




Someone has broken through the fence!

made a wormhole
into a restricted zone

-- a forest reserve to be kept
preserved from curious hikers
        who only loved to walk
        the soft native earth.

They'd brush aside thorny vines that catch them,
rush through blades of grass that cut them

       just to find a way to get lost

in a patch they call 'nature',

       to breathe in the green

and bathe their heads
under the golden sunbeams
falling through the canopy.


***