Posted in Deep Water, Poetry 1990's, tagged climbing, Deep Water, ivy, light, Love, passion, poem, Poetry, seeking on September 21, 2014| 21 Comments »
(just another oldie – revised)
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Her roots are caught
in rock-bound earth
but her dreams coil up
the weathered trunk
of an old elm tree.
Higher,
yet higher
they weave through branches
seeking the sun
till finally one dawn
they burst from containment
calling the name
of a lover in flight
on the edges
of all that could be.
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(c) 1996, 2014 Betty Hayes Albright
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Posted in Deep Water, Poetry 1990's, tagged ascension, climbing, Love, meaning, mountain, Poetry on May 21, 2012| 22 Comments »
In her long climb
she stumbles on memories,
sends them clattering
to the ravine.
She slips on illusions
melting and dripping
like tiny prisms
in need of a light.
But on the sixth day
her true match is struck
and she finally sees:
nothing in heaven is moot.
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(c) 1995, 2012 Betty Hayes Albright
Posted in Deep Water, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged climbing, complete, cosmos, grief, lightning, Love on November 27, 2011| 13 Comments »
He threw his clock
into the sea,
tossed the years
into the fire,
trod the foothills
higher still than yesterday.
Beyond the summits
of tomorrow
rising past the craters
of his grief
he danced and fell
and danced some more –
he laughed and wept
and laughed again.
And that’s when lightning struck.
With open eyes
and flashing needles
all his poems
were loving-sewn
into the walls
of evermore
and Cosmos was complete.
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(c) 2011 Betty Hayes Albright
Posted in Poetry 1990's, tagged climbing, evolving, Instinct, mountain, poem, Poetry, seeking, spirituality on October 27, 2011| 8 Comments »
How hard it is to see
the highest mountain for the trees
until we hear the ancient knock
of thunder sky and molten rock.
We tear away the mossy veil
that had long concealed the trail
just to find the climb is steepest
where the waterfall is deepest
and it seems we’re almost there
when we breathe the rarest air
beyond the earth, into the sun
where we learn we’ve just begun.
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(c) 1994, 2012 Betty Hayes Albright
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