It is the rugged mountain landscape that reflects my heart
from great heights I watch over every part
the pinnacles are the summit of my aspiration
valleys are where I pause for consideration and revelation
water scoured gullies have carved their scars onto my soul
but the long deep range sustains and heals my whole
open rolling plains broad flat and wide
are where the scope of my vision emerges from inside
where I can see from horizon to horizon
nothing impedes my hopes here my future can be spun
from each creature or blade each single tree or forest
I absorb the beauty of each day each morning and evening sun
watching and observing for new opportunities to enlist
along waterways I explore the wilder places I adore
where raging tempest or placid calm invoke irrepressible desires for more
like the fluid medium within me water of my life
clean water fills all empty spaces with relief
and ocean depths teem with the origins of my genes
where all futures were created as a multiverse of dreams
This week the dVerse poetics prompt from Dora was to incorporate a landscape or cityscape into your poetry that either mirrors or amplifies your interior landscape (or lack thereof).
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That’s some landscape, Sean, and I love your relationship with the rugged mountains and valleys. I especially love the lines:
‘water scoured gullies have carved their scars onto my soul
but the long deep range sustains and heals my whole’
and
‘like the fluid medium within me water of my life
clean water fills all empty spaces with relief
and ocean depths teem with the origins of my genes’.
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Thank you Kim, I thought it was a super prompt, one that set me off on a path into the landscapes around me thinking about my relationship with them.
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You’re welcome, Sean.
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I enjoyed how the rhyme scheme kind of snuck up on me, I was engaged from the start.
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It was an inspiring prompt. There is so much to discover about yourself within the landscapes that surround you. I am glad you enjoyed the poem and the rhyming. Thanks for the comment.
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Your love for the “rolling plains,” “waterways,” and “rugged mountain” redounds through the careful crafting of the flowing lines and exquisite imagery here, Sean. You show us what makes this land one that “sustains and heals my whole,” taking us with you in this exploration of its terrain that reflects your own experience of its various aspects of beauty and wildness. I’ve never visited Australia, much less this part of it, but I feel as if I know it a little now. 🙂
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It was an excellent prompt in which to find yourself in relation to the landscapes around you. I enjoyed writing to it very much thank you Dora.
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Such a beautiful world of texture, where all of the geography forms an ecology of teaching.
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I loved this prompt. There’s no way to better understand ourselves than in relation to our landscapes.
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Dora comes up with good prompts! So true. It got me thinking of myself in a context and then through others’ eyes (thanks again, Dora!) see how that expands to what others are going through, leading to empathy for self and others.
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The sacred geography occupies a space between daily vistas and the dreamscape — always there illuminating both. To behold it is to be. A bit of Whitman in this self-identification with a landscape writ large.
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Thanks Brendan. We live in a region of diverse landscapes that as a bushwalker and photographer I identify with closely. Sacred, dreamscapes and daily vistas that combine to refuse to be taken for granted.
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