beauty solitaire, not shared
with distant neighbors
but with a stranger
passing by
sun comes up like a visiting planet
not a life-giving force
but everyone stands still
in its presence
night has been long
hope is like wings
energy landing soon
a cactus living long
knows sunrise so well
its art enfolds it
paints itself
in layers of light.
which came first
sunrise or rocks?
which assumed the color
of the other?
even the passing grass
in its short-lived way
mimics the rising sun
or is its youthful art
the way for us to follow?
Easter white
does not copy sun
brilliant night and day
nothing better
they seem to say
than purity
a bee engrossed
in a flower
seems drunk
with the task
in love with the work
or has she fallen in love
with the flower?
from desert flat
into mountains
from vast vistas
to closeness of peaks
the peaks stand hard
against the sun
sunrise hits the slopes
and the slopes turn it back
can you not respond
like the flat
like the loving ones?
in the canyons
life has water
enough to spare
to spread out limbs
and thrive
green sprouts
reach for the sun
dance with sun
time to relax
Please see a map of the places where I have slept, as updated
each day by Michael Angerman: Sharon in West Texas
S glad to have you back and you seem bathed in beauty
ReplyDeleteShe bathes in beauty
like the rocks
and like the cactus flowers
where the bee has come
and sunwashed hills have hiddn
in the stars
her voice is soothed
and smoothed by solitude
she savors as a balm
a buzz from the hive
beyond still sensed without a line
or web she knows
Looking forward to following your continuous adventure... when is your homecoming and how?
Love Kathabela
Yes, bathed in beauty, colors of sunrise starting to embellish my skin, soothed in solitude, a bee wallowing in love with a sun-washed flower.
DeleteBeautiful reflections and images Sharon. I feel myself a part of the expansive silence. ♥️
ReplyDeleteS0 much silence around Terlingua, Lois, and so much happening at the Starlight theater.
Deleteincredibly empty, yet there is live and so much beauty. Thank you, Sharon. And a big happy birthday wish to you, belated, but sincerely meant! Hugs.
ReplyDeleteThanks Erika, the silence and sparse vegetation, so uncrowded.
DeleteThat showy layered cactus looks like a Texas rainbow cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus. Wish we had one.
ReplyDeleteI looked at images for Texas rainbow cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus, and yes, it looks like it. How did you know that?
DeleteI think a better name for it would be "sunrise cactus" or "sandstone cactus"