Water Escape

Unusually warm

The legend - Lake Superior   

Summons the traveling

Children to its sandy shore

Enticed into the surf

Getting wet with full abandon

Remember how to laugh

Be within the moment

Enjoy a water war

Refresh, recapture, treasure now

Splash and play as jet

Ski wakes make awesome waves     

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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‘Quicksand’

Benign Superior

Beach sand tries to bury

You as you walk – draws your

Feet down and encases

Them in sticky grains of

Finely pulverized stone

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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(photos taken at sunset in Duluth from a moving car except for the last one taken at the domain of the Goddess)

Sky Fire

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‘Scenic Route’

Missing the turn off

from Grand Rapids south

to Duluth after

being welcomed and

Warmly embraced by

a master guitar

maker and his whole

family – already

Running late we find

ourselves taking the

‘scenic route’ north to

Bob Dylan’s home town

Hibbing – an hour

out of our way toward

a concert by friends

any poetic

Reasoning is lost

in our efforts

to catch the last set

of the performance

Never sitting in

the four special chairs

reserved for us as

their expected guests

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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Minnesota Sky Scenes:

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Photos taken from a moving car at sunset – Duluth, Minnesota.

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Minnesota Tree Art:

 Part Two

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Mississippi Headwaters:

Mississippi Headwaters –

Consciousness of Universal Destiny

Streaming from your mother’s heart

Slowly gathering momentum

You begin a heady journey

Flowing with a purpose

Final destination preordained

As others join your odyssey

You absorb them, grow stronger

You, Moon River, mature

Become the Mighty Mississippi 

Witnessing life on your banks

Changing, forever changing

Immortalized in word and song

You endure – different yet the same

Here at this and any given point

In time - You are the all 

The beginning and the end

Rolling from alpha to omega

Simultaneously being birthed and

Flowing out an old man into the sea

Endlessly ending the journey

That perpetually begins here

As but a trickle from

The bosom of your mother

At these - your headwaters

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2010

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Minnesota Tree Art:

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Domain of the Goddess

Step into the flow

Of the waterfall

Crystal beaded shades

Soften moonlit glow

Senseless beauty all

Around surrounds in

Colored glass hugs of

Random earth kindness

As sweet voiced guitar

Strings serenade you

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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Reminiscing

Morning bacon

Eggs and coffee

Aromas waft

Through the cabin

Reminder of

Laughter filled times

As children, teens

Energetic

Young adults when

The world was

At our hot

Eager to live

Life and explore

Deft fingertips

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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Peaceful Retreat

Old cabin in

The woods a few

Yards from the lake

Throwback in time

Forces slower

Pace on worn souls

A simpler life

If only for

Two lazy days

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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Writer’s Paradise

Inspiration strikes

As streaks of sunlight

Peek through the sides of

Drawn shades marking

The notebook page with

Diagonal light

Filtered through red pines

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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Nature’s Morning Meditation

Air hangs on trees

Thick, moist, cloying

Breezeless vapors

Glassy water

Reflects morning

Sun mirrored sky

Sudden silence

For a minute

Then life resumes

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2010

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Celebration (4^th of July)

Across the

Vast night sky

Flashes of

Bright light burst

Into spheres

And colored

Plumes fall to

Earth leaving

Trails of smoke behind

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2010

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The series of poems I started writing during my trip to Minnesota with my company from the Czech Republic has been postponed due to a family crisis - my mom fell down the stairs and broke both her wrists.  I have been busy dealing with everything that comes with such a crisis but things are getting better and so as soon as I can spare the time, I will start posting them.  I have, also, started a new weight loss protocol where I am taking certain homeopathic supplements, eating only 500 cclories per day and trying to walk 1 hr per day.  I was going to do a day by day progress report but no time now.  I have lost 13 lbs in 2 1/2 weeks.  

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This is the last poem in the series so far.  Written on the flight home from the Czech Republic in 2009.  My next set of Views from a Plane poems will be written in November this year when I fly to Seattle.

Spatial Interlude

In the interlude

Between earth and sky

We fly higher than

Birds with outstretched wings

In a shaky tin can

Nothing but pockets

Of air to cushion

Us on our way home

Into the waiting

Arms of those we love

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2009 

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Airport Shuffle

Scarlet and gray

Tinged with violet

Was the sky when

We landed in

Amsterdam

One half hour early

No gate - we wait

For the sky to

Add more blue to

The palette then

Disembark to

Wait almost three

Hours more for

Our flight to Prague

© Alice Vedral Rivera -2009 cz

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Night Moves

Night in her

Sequined gown

Parties til

The sun wakes

And slowly

Pushes her

Off the vast

Dance floor of

The sky with

His brightness

She waits for

His light to

Dim and wane

Enough to

Show off her

Steps again

For all who

Dare to be

Foot loose - move

Unconstrained

Wild and free

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2009 cz

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Melancholy Flight

Through my headphones

the flute weaves in

and around with

notes the other

instruments can

only underscore

Its story is

melancholy

matching my mood

on this first night

of limited

contact with you

©  Alice Vedral Rivera  - 2009 cz

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