Saturday, 1 February 2025

A Poem a Day (705): Journeying

 
Journeying
 
From rock to blade of grass
to bark to stone to living water,
this glistening, a rapture to spring,
an endeavour to be more, not less,
to flower, aspire, to be.
 
Soundless, the tallest tree bends
to air, speaks a language only
the river knows, and our feet sink
into mossy roots, a juncture read,
seek to walk the breath of nature.
 
We glimpse our own raw nakedness
without the weight of ourselves,
to travel light in pursuit of this missing part.
We measure each footprint we make
lest we leave too deep a mark.
 
In coming here we aspire to soar as birds,
unbridled, leaves shielding us from glare.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, February 1, 2025
 


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