Purpose of Storms

“Broken Tree” by Eirik Sørstrømmen

 

winds bend the trees
cracking elderly timber
youth comes into its own

 

 

(originally posted October 2013)

Season of Splendor

“Pine Trees and Snow” by Joy Nichols

(After Wordsworth’s “Splendour in the Grass”)

 

spring delayed

suits my mood

not yet ready

to take on

renewal

too old

too depleted

to face

starting over

but not even

stubborn old men

can intimidate time

spring will come

change the winter

to water

send it running

down cheeks

of my mountain

swelling streams

of my years

adding rush

to the rapids

of rivers

en route to

oblivious seas

an unstoppable flow

under force of

ambivalent gravity

pulling on me

taking with it

the stones

of my yesterdays

life as I lived it

my season

of splendor

at one with

immaculate

pine scented snow

Crocus

“Crocus Abstract 16” by Linnea Tober

cold in her corm

beginning to stir

beneath blankets

receding returning

their lifeblood

to saturate soils

enabling her

late winter

morning ablutions

she reaches her

slender green arms

her petite purple hands

in envigoring stretch

overhead till they

burst through the

membrane of seasons

to clutch the brisk air

full awake and alive

mute announcement

that spring is about

to arrive that it’s time

every lifeform prepare

to refresh itself

making the most

of this calendar gift

of renewal the

chance to start over

and better than ever

Lava Beds

“California Lava Beds”
Drawing by Granger
From fineartamerica.com

sluggish eruptions of blood

over four billion years

molten plasma exudes

onto valley and plain

flows and folds form new

features of resurgent skin

put new face to the world

yet the old one remains

subterranean sleeping

beneath barren caverns

and black basalt scoria

patient geology fixed for

enduring erosions of eons

exposed by time’s blessing

to once again bask in the sun

feel the wind and the rain

hear the roar and the whisper

of newly born creatures

and restart the story another

new chance in long series of

chances to get it all right

this time once and for all

New

“Spring Village”
Painting by Ledent Pol
From dailypainters.com

leaf and life
are awakening
sweeten the air
breathing color
back into the
grassblades so
suddenly lush

we are heirs
to this gift of
renewal this
summerbound
chance for new
courses to essay
contentment

Renewal

“Birth of a New World”
Painting by Salvador Dali
From wikiart.org

inhabit the storm
give your voice
to the thunder
become the force
God had in mind
when He started
it all with a bang

it’s your world
use your power
electrify life blow
away old mistakes
build it new
build it right
build it clean

Purpose of Storms

Storm Broken Tree
Photo from stormdamage.mobi

winds bend the trees
cracking elderly timber
youth comes into its own