Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Sunday, April 7, 2013

For Dan Bigley

Two Ghosts of the Kenai

For Dan Bigley

in a flash
the world gone black

the culprit
a brown blur of brawn

the bear's eyes
the last your own
will ever see

all hope
would seem lost
in the darkness

and yet you
become the sun
and show us all
how to see

beyond our own
bears




[Day  7 of my poem a day marathon for National Poetry Month. Check out Dan Bigley's new book Beyond the Bear .]

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Paradise Found

Flipping through some old photos and this caught my eye. Instantly transporting me back to a place that is quite literally paradise.
I snapped this on the beach on Kalalau Beach, at the end of the Napali Coast Trail on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai.
You can only get to this beach by hiking a rugged 11 mile trail, but the effort is worth the sweat. Pristine beaches. Fruit trees. Crystal clear streams. And about as close as you can get in the US to a tropical paradise without the trappings of civilization. No cars. No electricity. No computers. Just you, your thoughts, the sunshine, and your footprints that will be washed away, along with your stress and your feelings that you can't live without all those gadgets and so-called necessities that really aren't.