From Sea To Sky

On my way to getting an updated Covid shot, I saw the Whaling Wall in White Rock. Painted by Robert Wyland, the creatures brought to mind a recent article about plastic. Largely dependent on fossil fuel extraction, it is not only in the fish we eat, it seems to have permeated the clouds. The enduring ingredient to buttress our everyday products has turned into a micro-superpower gone rogue. I wonder, now that plastics have likely penetrated our DNA, will that translate into more resiliency for us somehow? I could do with more plasticity as I age. Kidding aside, there are serious implications that have little to do with vanity. All this, and war news as winter looms, influenced my poem.

The way the sun cast stars onto the dark ocean gave me an odd sense of optimism. Explore more at Poets and Storytellers United, SKYWATCH and Saturday's Critters. 

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HOLD ONTO THE LIGHT

Hope Set Sail

"False hope is a creeping vine." - from Plainsong, Horizon Forbidden West

   

There are as many types of clouds as facets to people. Pleasant, placid, edgy, flighty, still, stirred, puffed up, dreary, grim, thin, thick, thunderous, sullen, silver-lined, fiery, flimsy, rain-swollen, squalid, woolly, dreamy, moon-struck, sun-streaked, cotton candy clouds have swept over my horizons. This week's Poets and Storytellers United prompt are grammatical tools, i.e. "adjectives and adverbs". There would be little language left without these descriptive devices. So naturally a few found their way into my post and poem. News of the day was also my prompt. Cries for better situations are at universal levels. There are more personal hopes and prayers than glints in the ocean at a time when we most need healing actions, life's "verbs", to instill real hope and change.

   

Some photos were taken locally and others during my Alaska cruise years ago. ⛅ 

Explore more at Poets and Storytellers United, and SKYWATCH. 

Check out my sites: Postcards from Penelope Puddle and Musings of A Puddlist In B.C.

Because the state of our planet is the most pressing issue of our time, link up and learn about the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report.

HOLD ONTO THE LIGHT