The prompt for What's going on is black or white. I chose white as it reminded me of our trip a few weeks ago in Spring.
Sorry the poem is not very concrete as I just let a word take me on skies and let it slide down the hills to wherever it takes me.
We were so lucky! We spend a few days of holiday in the south. We initially thought we couldn't reach our destination as Burkes Pass was closed because of snowfall. We gambled it and when we came to the pass, the sun shining, the road clean. We drove through magic landscape and took it all in, in awe and peace whispered in white.
Peace whispers in white
The mountains exhale white.
Light shimmers on their robes,
and this pure world
asks for nothing
only to be seen.
The mountains lean close to the water.
The lake waits,
its wide hands cupping the aqua
that sparkles with silver stars.
Nothing is urgent here.
Peace whispers in white.
The sky clings to my skin.
I shiver and let the white world
purify my heart,
let its simplicity breathe serenity,
its wisdom fracture into colour,
and in that quiet breaking
I feel the pulse of life return
a hush before creation,
where I write my life
upon its empty page,
and new stories rise like dawn.
So much beauty, in your poem and photographs . Wow. Beautiful. I once travelled through old growth trees beside the highway covered in DEEP snow - they looked so magical. I had never seen them look that way - so alive, leaning over the highway like guardian angels.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sherry and that's beautiful 'leaning over the highway like guardian angels"
Delete...and in spring peace whispers in color.
ReplyDeleteGood one Tom
DeleteMarja, that is so beautiful! It reads to me like a meditation, as it is so very calming. I like so many of the phrases you used, but this one really grabbed me:
ReplyDelete"I write my life
upon its empty page,
and new stories rise like dawn."
Beautiful poem. Thanks also for sharing the beautiful holiday pics. Like the title "Peace whispers in White."
ReplyDeleteDear Marja, your photos are really beautiful and the poem is amazing!
ReplyDeleteI love that white feels like positive and especially your closing thoughts about writing - Jae
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