www.localbeachhotels.com-Alden Marin's Coastal Poetry

AN AFTERNOON ALONG THE SESPE

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:13:06 CDT

It’s a bigger sky

than your thoughts

can imagine

and it won’t be

contained by concepts

in places where

mens’ feet have

never trodden

mountains beckon the conjecture

as to why; the answer

lies in purple sandstone

green along a creekbed

beckoning sweetly

in the corner of an eye–

No place for your

ambitions and goals

except one foot at a time

on the noble, crumbling trail

that wraps the hills

with the disappearing thread

of its vast highway;

the locations you

can never forget–lost

as soon as

you find the words to describe

a summer afternoon

along the Sespe;

a gift with each breath

All photos © Pablo Capra

and unfolding persective

on a birthday, like last year’s

to the day; the landscapes

reborn with every moment

recalling our purposeful passage

and grateful for simply

being here, and alive.

THIS IS WHAT MATTERS

Wed, 06 May 2009 18:20:17 CDT

A road

winding through canyons

past effusive bloom;

yellow, red, lavender fingerprints

at the window

a creek heard drumming

on rocks below

if you stop and listen

to the wind, long enough

A view of the coast

from the rise;

brushstrokes of blue

canvassed against

the exploding day

sparkling on horizons

indicative of nothing

and everything--

the city from which

you came, begs you

to leave and yet, to stay—

This is what matters

on the outskirts;

a trailhead--the dirt

an invitation, an elixir

put on your shoes

tie them tight

and head due west

up the jungle

to the sky

IN GENTLE RETURNING ORBIT

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:56:10 CDT

At Pt Freedom

light on glassy

pluming funnels

joyride tide--a test

balancing time

one on one, man

to wavemother

cradling son

on surface sublime

ocean blood pumps

skin alive

without, within

seeking the embryonic

fleeting sea edge

fierceness released

on swell; riders

glide, fly, transcend

in gentle, returning

orbit.