Eclipse

earth goes round the sun
while moon rotates the earth
meeting on occasion
not seen too much in Perth

photographers go out
a photo op of her
all variables they doubt
the best shot may be Weiser

folks are selling glasses
keep your eyes safe viewin’
some of them are asses
fake is what their doin’

get ready ‘or the land
time it is a wastin’
be ready to take stand
next one in generations

all your preparation
only minutes to see
add to the frustration
now clouds they cover thee

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#eclipse

Canyon Blues

fix my knee
count to three

stiff neck
what a wreck

climbing high
to the sky

Grand Canyon
find companion

feeling ill
take a pill

lay in chair
get some air

a new feelin’
done with reelin’

eat a cracker
I’m no slacker

find a look out
got no doubt

I can do it
nothing to it

comin’ round
don’t look down

feelin’ better
take off my sweater

no more chills
just Canyon thrills

on to Zion
more heights tryin’

Dreamscape

Is a dream a dream

or mind let go

allowed to travel

often to foreign places

time erased

landscape of people

and places

so real you can almost touch

sometimes a clear

observation

sites and sounds

panaroma of vision

calls you in

come

now

 

 

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quadrillé at dVerse with “dream”

No More Shade

Under the canopy resting and weary

too much success for Jonah

who brought a word to Nineveh

the people repented

and Jonah was angry with God

 
How can such a warring people

find salvation from you God

then the worm came

ate the tree

no more shade
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dVerse prompt on shade

Smoke

Smoke on Puget Sound

So many wildfires burning

Hard to see clearly

Forest Fires

Smoke filled the valley coming into Idaho. Where there were mountains now you could not see mountains and dusk came early from the thick haze.  Bring some rain we pleaded in a circle dance, dancing all night while the flames shot forty feet into the dark sky.

Who can save us from this char-filled air, breathing in the remnants of fire hundreds of miles away over the Canadian border?   Last night it stormed all night in Zion.

Lightning strikes the earth

Twenty fires in Idaho

The state is burning

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dVerse prompt on the imperfect

Grand Canyon

Glory to God

Glory to God

and the Canyon

Maker of heaven

and earth

and the Canyon