Songs of the Islands (2005)
By Mark Feezell / DrFeezell.com

2. Haleakala

A gift of years: one small seed.
Winds from other shores
tossed down,
and zephyrs buried life beneath dust.

Waiting there, 
eagerness sprouts from barrenness,
choice from indecision,
boldness from the fleeting fear
of all the crumbling earth.

Persistence, silversword:
grip mountain stones,
decades drinking mist
and eating volcanic rock.

Sun and snow and heat and wind.

Tender leaves widening their 
strength of will,
then flowering, dying, 
passing breath of ice on summer slopes,
melting away.

Composed July 19, 2005 by Mark Feezell / DrFeezell.com
Dedicated to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0) 2024.