Showing posts with label Watercolors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watercolors. Show all posts

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Young Pilgrims on the shore.......

As children on the shore..



Oh! To be like children,
As they stand as Pilgrims
On the shore,
Waiting at the start of life.

The wind and warm breeze touch their cheeks,
They are unaware that the sands of time
Have started down the hourglass,
In the measurement of their days.

Unaware of the past and its history,
Encircled by lofty ideals,
Filled with dreams “a-plenty”,
Their time has come,
Yet they are unaware.

To you I wish life in its fullest;
To you I wish understanding
Of life’s uncertain ways.
And yet there is life everlasting,
Viewed in the shifting sands,
That will greet the generations in their day.

Silence prevails in the lonely north,
Where only wind whispers its thoughts to man;
Dreams of summer,
Dreams at night,
As the earth sleeps until awakened in the spring.

Rest and comfort by the fire,
Man lives away from winter cares.
While beasts outside
shiver and wait,
For the warmth and comfort of springtime air.

The solitude may be quite needed,
Rest for earth, this I know.
Yet deep within my soul,
Summer's warmth is what I long for,
Not winter's cold forbidding snow!


Tuesday, April 9, 2013

A light that once showed the way in the darkness....


Selkirk Lighthouse at Port Ontario


Now dark in the gloomy clouds of day,
This trusted light once showed the way.
Asleep in the ages and next to the lake,
A beacon to all a safe haven to take.

Now its uses are left to the few,
Who venture to take a picture or two.
But mighty its pull to a time once known,
When leading the way from peril it shown.

Awake from your sleep those that rest in the sea,
You are not forgotten by the likes of me.
Let this lighthouse bear witness to your life now gone,
A lasting testament to the history of those you left forewarned.