Once Upon A Glacier

There comes a moment when the unreasonable hour;
The impractical impulse;
the improbable chance -
Are the very same reasons life exists ...

A Chance moment-
An impulse without doubt-
A spark of genuine light-

In whimsical pursuit of the mountains
And a trek to find nature's ice of purity;

A need to find a glacier....

A journey northwest to the cascades-
Being in flight is both reason to escape
And a purpose to capture...
And thus, a metamorphosis

A cocoon of inward context
A keeper of the possibilities
Wrapped with the pains of plain

Waiting the moment to evolve
To become; To grow wings; to change

To seek a basis of the glacier...

Time's cursive nature measures in relative terms
And so a glacier's essence is for eternity to understand-
The glaciers live at the edge of the highest places
And once reigned below and across the low lands

Before evolution stood up to walk-
Changing the granite faces of the mountains;
Creating a paradise for rivers to flow into bodies of water

Infusing and engaging their grace of coldness
So that a warmness might breathe life

When one reflects upon the glacier...


The travel diverges from the ocean's lap
Through the breast of the emerald forests
Across barren lands held in a deathly pale ember;
Where trepidations battle determinations

For survival; for intention; for a singularity
Between the dryness of logic
And the fertility of imagination

Where the epic and the apex
Speak of an eternity that is-

Where one finds a glacier...