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