ADIRONDACKS

DREAMS OF FLIGHT IN ASTRAL PLANES

IMPART INTENSELY PHYSICAL SENSATIONS

SOARING HIGH ALOFT TO MY DESTINATIONS

FEELING AEROBATICS MOST EXHILARATING

.

GLACIER CARVED ICE AGE STONE

POLISHED SMOOTH SO LONG AGO

FROM THE DEPTHS TO LOFTY PEAKS

GRANITE SENTINELS CAPPED WITH SNOW

.

LICHENS CLING ON ROCKY CLIFFS AND

EVERGREEN BOUGHS TO GNARLED TREES

THEIR TWISTED VINES CLOAKED IN MOSS

STONES REST STILL ON FOREST FLOOR

.

CRYSTAL WATERS BORN OF SPRINGS

EVER FLOWING BEYOND LIGHT’S REACH

CONCEALS LIFE DOWN IN THE DEEP

WHERE SECRETS LIE IN WAITING

.

BENEATH BRIGHT FULL WINTER MOON

THE SONGS OF LOONS CARRY FAR

ACROSS STILL WATERS OF THE LAKE

THEY DIVE BENEATH STEALTHILY

.

MOONLIT EYES GLOW IN DARKEST NIGHT

OWLS SEARCH FROM THEIR LOFTY PERCHES

ON SILENT WINGS SWOOPING DOWN

GLIDING WITH TALONS SPREADING

.

DREAMS OF FLYING BACK IN TIME

FROM THIS PLACE I KNOW SO WELL

TAKE ME TO A DISTANT AGE EMERGING

FROM AN ANCIENT FROZEN SPELL

.

SOARING LIKE A FALCON DOES

ABOVE THE SHORELINE OF THE BAY

BEFORE THE TIME OF TREES AWAKENS

VIRGIN LAND AWAITING FUTURE HABITATION

.

IN THIS DISTANT TIME OF OLD

ITS MAGNETISM SO CAPTIVATING

EXPLORING THIS NATURAL WORLD ANEW

UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS

.

BOULDER RESTS UPON A POINT

BROUGHT BY GLACIERS FROM FAR AWAY

THROUGH DEEP CRYSTAL WATERS PEERING

INTO SACRED LAKE BELOW

.

TEN THOUSAND LONG YEARS AGO

ANCIENT MOUNTAINS SLOWLY BURIED

DEEP BENEATH HARDENED ICE AND SNOW

WORN DOWN WEATHERED THROUGH CENTURIES

.

AGAIN EARTH TURNS TO FACE THE SUN

AS THE GLACIER MELTS, SIGNS OF LIFE EMERGE

WITH HINTS OF MOSS AND LICHENS GREEN

ANOTHER CYCLE IS BEGINNING

.

-JHD

This is a compilation of recurring dreams where I am flying through familiar places. These are my observations from a bird’s-eye view.

BY JON H. DAVIS

DECEMBER 2022

NORTHERN LIGHTS STUDIO www.NLScreativemedia.com