Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.

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22. Nature [100 poems challenge]

 

22.          Nature

At first
All I see is
The grey ash,
Its fine powder dark and dusty
Below the charred black bark
Of once proud eucalypts
Now naked,
Leaves vanished
In a furious inferno,
A howling firestorm
Of hungry flames
And swirling embers;
Consuming, capricious, and catastrophic.

Grey ash,
And scarred stumps,
Black and grey,
Charred and cindered;
Grey ash,
Dusty and dead.

But then—
Luminous against the grey—
A tiny, impossible green;
Tentative yet defiant,
Sign of life.

May 23rd, 2013 | Category: Poems | Leave a comment

Moods of the Mountain #8

What mountain?!

 

(This is the thickest fog I’ve seen here so far, although it was only this thick for about 15 minutes. If you check some of my early mountain moods photos you will see one from 4 May last year which was not quite so dense.)

Other moods of the mountain photos can be […]