AUTUMN CLOUDS

Villa des Amis/September 2013/LPC

    

AUTUMN CLOUDS

This existence of ours is as transient 

    as autumn clouds.

To watch the birth and death of beings 

    is like looking at the movements 

    of a dance. 

A lifetime is like a flash of lightning 

    in the sky.

Rushing by like a torrent 

    down a steep mountain.

                                           ---Buddha

Global Warming

Swiss Alps/2008/LPC

Global Warming
There was ice here

Huge sheets of it

Clinging to the earth

Carving the soil

Pushing in retreat

Leaving contours

Creating conditions

For new life

Including mine

I have clung to the earth

Pushed it 

Left contours

Created new life

They will say 

I was here

My offspring

They will do the same

Then be gone

The ice will return

Take comfort in that
                     ---LPC 9/25/13