Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Maya Angelou.
Earth Connections
There have been breathless moments-
- soft pastel sunrises as sliding rays of morning sun
bathe a woodland path… hushed sounds of murmuring leaves
whipbirds trill and kookaburra’s laugh…
as my silent feet wander through beauty that does not cease…
… here I feel at home… immersed in a natural peace;
the rare silence of the open desert… undulating expanse
of endless plain… red sand stretches to the far horizon
beyond what human eyes can see… dust coated spinifex
border wind-blown sandhills where Bearded Dragons
race each other to scanty shade…
low growing mallees huddle by trickles of rivers
all but dried up by Australian sun… still they offer cover and haven
for Hopping Mouse and Bilby families…
and such breathless moments born in breathless beauty
of verdant rainforest and mountain view…
… pristine coastal vistas too remote for many of my kind
who choose the convenience of resort beaches
sporting thousands of sunburnt sea-worshippers-
- each to their own, I say…
but give me a day where trees outnumber the people
and desert hawk search for pray… emu on the horizon
silhouetted at the end of day…
give me untainted air and freedom to roam -
- the wilderness of Gondwanaland is my home;
Sharonlee©
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