Rock and Wind and Sea

Standing on a windswept point into the sea

Granite formation rough but beautiful underfoot

Sparkling fractals of quartz and darkest black

Mingle below as the salt spray wets everything

Icy, dagger like wind cutting through my jacket

Fittingly the loneliest place on earth, bleak yet

Overwhelmingly stunning in its stark beauty

A wild place, nature's domain as winter begins

Longed for even as brighter days will return

Every Day

As if trying to navigate a swollen river

It's banks running ever higher and the flow

Rushing faster and faster as it froths and foams

The very course changing moment by moment

The kayak capsized as you grasp its smooth top

And the paddles nowhere to be found in the rage

Clinging desperately and working hard to alter

Your direction and arrive at the end of it all