It’s a bird’s perspective I envy –
the ability to perch up high
balanced, no matter the weather
unaffected by the drama below –
I shall never know such calm,
being afraid of heights.
(For Bird Weekly Photo challenge: birds perched up. Not sure of featured image (a sparrow of somes sort), Bald Eagle, and Red-winged blackbird) A Bird’s Eye View first appeared here August 2019 and is available on diverse merch through Redbubble and Society6 – see shopping pages.)
No straight road,
no easy, out of the pod,
solutions – complexity,
it seems, reigns.
I travel circular paths
past ancient structures –
having erected statues
to past wounds – present
walls barely standing.
Unseen forces drive –
societal angst, perhaps –
know only that life
is possibility, and I
sorrowfully lag.
(Written for Twenty Four’s 50 Word Thursday, with help from the daily prompts of Fandango – easy, and Ragtag Community – pod. Image supplied by Deb Whittam of Twenty Four.)
One Woman's Quest 