All Saint's Day

Yellow, orange, white
Uneaten candy-corn teeth
Paper wrapped kisses

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 14 October 2017

S ce n tacean

Of what do whales smell
Ancient caves beneath the waves,
Salt breezes, krill, fish?

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 7 October 2017

Waking Dream

Ambient light flickers

Silhouettes and colours roil

Behind closed eyelids 

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

ⓒ 9 September 2017

Air de Lune

Stilled breezes Silence

Night shadow blankets the day

Surprising the birds. 

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

ⓒ 26 August 2017

Eclipsed

Darkness encroaches 
Sun haloes Moon's silhouette 
Moon returns the Light

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
©19 August 2017

Celadon

Pale blue-green vessel 

Softly glows beneath its glaze

On a shelf alone

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 29 July 2017

Murano to Caithness

Sand, heat, air, pigment

Elemental, pipe-blown art

Strong and fragile glass. 

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 22 July 2017

Sunbursts

Dandelions in seed
Soft, pale, floating skeletons
Once golden carpets

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
©15 July 2017

Tach That

Heartbeats, take a breath
slowly, deeply calm your mind
press your pulse to slow

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 17 May 2017

Pas de Squirrel

Dart, dash, chase, climb, leap

Branch to branch, tree to rooftop

Squirrels dance, tails asway

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 15 June 2017

Helium

(for Christine)

Bright coloured birds
flying ‘gainst the sun-drenched sky;
Please don’t launch balloons.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 27 May 2017

Botanical

Botanical

Pale chrysanthemums
‘neath Japanese cherry trees;
sway and scent the breeze.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 27 May 2017

L-Space

Phrases, sentences
Paragraphs, chapters, acts, scenes;
Where to stop reading?

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 12 May 2017

Come What May

(Dedicated to Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Alpert)

Creating  beauty:
melody, words, art, and voice;
Herb and Lani shine.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 29 April 2017

Ink Blots

Unformed psychic blobs,
Non-verbal thoughts on a page;
shaped behind closed eyes.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 11 May 2017

Patterns

Rose-gold dappled light
Speckled Appaloosa mare
dancing in the sun.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 6 May 2017

Clouds

The sky is dull white
the clouds are blue-grey;
the colours backwards.

I see no shining rays
but the sun filters through.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 4 May 2017

Iceberg

(For Earth Day)

Frozen monolith

Macrocosmic history

Looming just beyond

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 22 April 2017

Crystals

Bright faceted light

Coloured mineral prisms
focusing the mind

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 22 April 2017

Route 55

Droning wind, road noise, 
thrum of traffic passing by
miles of yellow lines. 

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 14 April 2017

Flare

Deep abiding pain

burrows within my sinews

I require true rest 

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

©️8 April 2017

Midtown

Algonquin Hotel
Deco, Jazz, and Matilda
But no "Round Table"

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 1 April 2017

http://www.algonquinhotel.com/story/algonquin-cat/

Woodwind

Haunting melody

Lakota flute floats in breeze

Easing soul and mind

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

©️1 April 2017

Koi Pond

Dragonfly hovers

Egret swoops, surface bubbles

Swimming gold below

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

©️ 4 March 2017

Essence

Windswept Tree of Life
planting roots deep in the Earth
seeking life’s water

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 23 March 2017

Great Lakes

Infinite water

Reaching past the horizon

Endless from all shores

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 11 March 2017

Vernal Hymn

I’m a bird above the water
I’m a fish beneath the waves
I soar both wind and currents
Swim the tides ‘mid sunken caves
I course the windswept waters
as Selkie and as Man
I ride the windborne cloud trails
as kite or kestrel can
I bound across the mountains
I gallop ‘cross the plains
I’m breeze and swell and salt spray
I’m sunlight and I’m rain.
I’m hoof beats and I’m wolf howl
Dawn chorus and whale song
I’m breath and exhalation
of all things I belong

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
©21 March 2014

Prairie

Tall grasses waving
Redwinged blackbird perched on stalk
Chimes flutter in breeze

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
©️ 4 March 2017

Loon Lake

Silent lake at dawn
Snow geese, loons, and gliding swans
Murmuring, chort'ling

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
©️11 March 2017

Sky High

Sunshine on mountains
Soaring birds above the pines
Earth, wind and water

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
©️11 March 2017

Silence

In the emptiness there is quiet

In the quiet there is calm

In the calm there is peace

If only I could hush my thoughts, 
if I could dampen my fears, 
soften the world; find the serenity

Somewhere there is stillness

Somewhere there is tranquillity

Somewhere there is peace

If only it was in my life, 
if only it was in my domain, 
if only it were in my mind; 
discovery of harmony and repose

Ronda R Scott-Marak
© 15 April 2015

Percussion

(Dedicated to Roger Squitero)

Brushes, sticks or hands… 

Skin, plastic, steel, or heart’s pulse… 

Beating diff’rent drums.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 18 February 2017

Spoiled Milk(y) Way

Spattered stardust sky

Where has your Milky Way gone?

Hidden… never seen.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 4 February 2017

Sky Glow

Spirits of Light cloaked in manufactured Subfusc
Ghost stars of ancient skies in mantles of sable
hidden by artifice in deceptive, diffused night
Open yourself to embrace the sky’s darkness
and by your heart, warmth, and glimmer
bring forth again unshrouded Light.


Ronda R. Scott-Marak
©27 December 2016

Skyline

Peaks and valleys
Glass, brick,  and slab-stone
High clouds and towers
Blue skies, and green river
Church spires, Ferris wheel circles,
Parklands, and Lake Campus,
Bridges and waterways,
Beaches and harbours,
Alleys and boulevards,
El tracks and highways,
Side streets and Neighbourhoods;
Our arteries and bones.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 7 January 2017

Sky Dances

I am Aurora
I am electricity, I am light
I am magnetic
I am colours burning bright
I am rainbows
I am prisms in the night
My song a windswept thrum in a place where there’s no air
My dance a pirouette of jeweled ribbons rare
I am Aurora
I twirl and trill across the polar sky

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 31 December 2016