Crystals

The weightless flight of snow flakes

slowly flutter-falling through our view

on this calm December afternoon.

Please reveal the peace you feel

with words as precise and intricate

as these perfect, delicate crystals.

© 2022 Richard Havenga

Photo Location: Townsend Park - Kent County - Michigan

 

May You Walk IV

May you walk...

Around early winter ponds not yet frozen, 
but accented in black and white.

On overcast days, under shades of gray,
dense with stratus.

On cross-country skis, along wooded trails,
deep with fresh powder.

On cold mornings among crystals clinging to arching grasses, 
sparkling with frost.

Over round, white hills, rolling to the horizon,
smoothed with deep blankets of snow.

On winter lakes, sealed over with twelve inches of ice, 
and ten inches of snow.

May you walk through the seasons of your life attentive and alert, 
with a joyful sense of gratitude.

© 2016 Richard Havenga

Photo Locations: Kent County, Michigan

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Crystal Arches

Grasses, once tender,
green and alive,
thrived in this wetland,
stretched toward the sun.

Then gravity,
gradually and gracefully,
turned them back
toward earth.

Now, at season's end,
grasses slender
brown and dying,
again vibrant in early light.

Silvered by fine frost,
illuminated by morning sun,
flashing prisms of color
focus my attention.

My breathing has stopped.
Frozen in the moment.
My vision fixed
on remarkable beauty.

These gently curving arches
lined with fine crystal,
reveal a sparkling display.
The world created again, today.

If this is a sample
of the radiance
along the path
to Heaven...

When from this earth
I must depart,
I will surely declare:
"How Great Thou Art".

©  2013  Richard Havenga

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Location:

 

McCarthy Lake,  Kent County,  Michigan  (Michigan)