Blue Mountain, August 2016 CE

Blue bells, harebells
Sing amongst the meadow
Yellow blossoms bedeck the hummocks
Rolling down the slope,
Blue and yellow dappled patches
Quilt the tumultuous green
Feathered light with tassled grasses
Swaying in the breaths of wind...
Wind that swirls round the stony peaks
Whisking whisps of clouds through the passes
Tumbling them about with gay abandon
Nudibranchs of the sky...
Still other plumes of fog
Come billowing over the peaks and ridges of stone,
Watchful guardians
The gargoyles of nature
Tips of ancient sea bed layers
Tower amid the alpine meadows...
Dark, grey, craggy with age
Seemingly crouched on the edge
Rooted in the heart of the mountains
Up close we see a glimpse of their truth...
These timeworn sentinels
Streaked with sparkling white quartz
Amid the shadowed red
Of an ancient flame
Smoothed to stone,
Jagged yet strong
Rising from fragments
Of history's sharp flakes,
Beacons brightly spotted
With brilliant orange liken,
The ancient sea stone of the Blue Mountain
Watches over it's fragile alpine meadows
Time's messenger adorned in its timeless beauty
With the ephemeral delight of summer's life.

Happy Father's Day 2016 CE

Ocean calls my name

C is in my blood

Eagle soars above

Air with salt is laden

Night draws nigh.

Sails full of wind

Prints of cats on water

Radiant the sun

Artist paints

Yonder blooms.

Old the

 Call

  Ever clear the

   Ancient tune

    Never faltering

     Sea's siren song

      Proud

       Radiant

        Anchored

        Yearning, we come.

       Brilliant

      Laughing

     Ocean

    Sing us to life

   Sooth all sorrows

  Open our hearts

 Merge and mend

Sea bound, we thrive.

A Secret in Obscurity (Mother's Day 2016)

In the shadows of the meadow when the day is growing young

In the mist upon the moors where the pegasi have run

In the cloud about the mountain with the water clear and cool

There's a secret in obscurity you cannot learn at school,

It is light and full of mystery

It is shadow in the night

It is vague and full of chance

Where the sidhe were known to dance,

It is blending

It is changing

It is different

Just the same

Ever tending

Ever ranging

Ever watchful

Of the game,

By the light not seen by ferns neath the canopy of time

By the song not sung by words in a flowing ancient rhyme

By the scent of clearest water where the unicorn doth dwell

There's a secret in obscurity that nary a soul can tell,

You must listen in the sunlight thus to the shadows stray

You must watch within the night and by the veils of the day

You must follow every pattern with no ripples from your flow

When this pattern you can follow then the secret you will know,

There's a secret in obscurity that never will be taught

For it stems from personalities and traits that can be wrought.

1^st of April 2016

Friday Forecast (for Admiralty Inlet from NOAA)

Fog before the 11^th hour

Blown by wind shy of 5 knots

Hither and yon around the wind-waves

Tumbling about below the height

Of inches, a baker's dozen strong.

Valentine's Day 2016

Heart of the Forest

Ælfhild Wiklund

In the heart of the forest

In shade green and cool

Is a hidden dell

With a magic pool,

At this sparkling well

Where the unicorns drink

Where fairies frolic

You might think,

Of fabulous flowers

Of rainbow hues

That flourished with frills

Hint at questing clues,

Quiet and shy

Are the flowers in truth

They source not the fragrance

In age or in youth,

Rather scent wafts from leaves

Dark green hearts

Smoothly rippling in the breeze

Each leaf a chart,

Of the veins of life

That hold spicy and sweet

The mysterious air

That marks this mystic retreat,

In the heart of the forest

Where magic does spring

Wild ginger lends grace

That the zephyr might ring,

The woods with the aroma

Of magic and calm

From hearts in the heart

Of the forest, comes balm.

Friday Weather 22Jan.2016

Rain showers
Cold showers
In winter time
Or shall they be
Warm showers
In our changing clime?
Wind-waves are rising
One to two feet
From 8-13 knots of wind
South points the fleet!

Weather, Friday 15/Jan/2016 C.E.

“Chance of showers”

Suggests rain,

Mayhaps winter flowers

Will bloom again.