Canyon Flight
Oh wind carve me
as you sculpt this
sandstone gorge
ribbons of fins
cascading
down two thousand feet
such a crescendo of
petrified white caps
as if water from an
ancient waterfall
had just frozen there
succeeding
into a pelvis of cedars
Wind, lift me
over these stony falls
wings open
sailing over
ancient peaks and valleys
over deer grazing
an elk rutting, hawks
soaring with me
in the open totality
of earth’s elevations
as I blend in,
dissolve.
Inscriptions
East Cliff Drive - Santa Cruz
Overlooking The Hook,
Sitting on a bench above,
I rest back on a plate
bearing a name,
wonder who she was.
Dedicated to a woman surfer,
a young one from the dates
of her span, I read,
See you on the flip side,
ride out in peace.
As I look towards
the split rail fence
the cliff falls away to
cerulean blue ocean
a clear sky day, as surfers
ride out their dreams.
One young woman
inscribes the waves.
Go, girl, I whisper as she
cuts back again and again.
Shifting my focus, gray letters
on the split-rail emerge
from gray-brown.
Someone tagged,
I’m proud of you.
No street name,
no stylized letters, just
a generous wish to anyone
who needs a lift.
I want to etch back,
…this is how
we get through.
instead I whisper, “Wow, thanks!
me too … you, whoever
you are.”
Robin Lysne, M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D is an author of 5 books, artist and energy healer. Recent books are Handbook to Heart Path, An Energy Medicine Guide, and Poems for the Lost Deer, (BlueBoneBooks, Santa Cruz,CA, 2014). Her poems and reviews have been published in; Rattle, Phren-z online Magazine, Samizdat, Awkening Consciouesness Magazine, The Weekely Avocet, North American Review, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Tree Stories, Beneath the Sleeping Maiden, Korone, Volumes VIII, IX, X, and Wounded Healers, (Wounded Healers Press, Bolinas, Ca., Rachel Remen, M.D., editor.) A member of Emerald Street Poets in Santa Cruz, she has an M.F.A.-Poetry, Mills College (2012), and Ph.D.-Energy Medicine, University of Natural Medicine, Satna Fe, (2013) Other published book titles are: Heart Path (BlueBoneBooks), Sarced Living (Conari Press), and Dancing Up The Moon (Conari Press).
Oh wind carve me
as you sculpt this
sandstone gorge
ribbons of fins
cascading
down two thousand feet
such a crescendo of
petrified white caps
as if water from an
ancient waterfall
had just frozen there
succeeding
into a pelvis of cedars
Wind, lift me
over these stony falls
wings open
sailing over
ancient peaks and valleys
over deer grazing
an elk rutting, hawks
soaring with me
in the open totality
of earth’s elevations
as I blend in,
dissolve.
Inscriptions
East Cliff Drive - Santa Cruz
Overlooking The Hook,
Sitting on a bench above,
I rest back on a plate
bearing a name,
wonder who she was.
Dedicated to a woman surfer,
a young one from the dates
of her span, I read,
See you on the flip side,
ride out in peace.
As I look towards
the split rail fence
the cliff falls away to
cerulean blue ocean
a clear sky day, as surfers
ride out their dreams.
One young woman
inscribes the waves.
Go, girl, I whisper as she
cuts back again and again.
Shifting my focus, gray letters
on the split-rail emerge
from gray-brown.
Someone tagged,
I’m proud of you.
No street name,
no stylized letters, just
a generous wish to anyone
who needs a lift.
I want to etch back,
…this is how
we get through.
instead I whisper, “Wow, thanks!
me too … you, whoever
you are.”
Robin Lysne, M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D is an author of 5 books, artist and energy healer. Recent books are Handbook to Heart Path, An Energy Medicine Guide, and Poems for the Lost Deer, (BlueBoneBooks, Santa Cruz,CA, 2014). Her poems and reviews have been published in; Rattle, Phren-z online Magazine, Samizdat, Awkening Consciouesness Magazine, The Weekely Avocet, North American Review, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Tree Stories, Beneath the Sleeping Maiden, Korone, Volumes VIII, IX, X, and Wounded Healers, (Wounded Healers Press, Bolinas, Ca., Rachel Remen, M.D., editor.) A member of Emerald Street Poets in Santa Cruz, she has an M.F.A.-Poetry, Mills College (2012), and Ph.D.-Energy Medicine, University of Natural Medicine, Satna Fe, (2013) Other published book titles are: Heart Path (BlueBoneBooks), Sarced Living (Conari Press), and Dancing Up The Moon (Conari Press).