The Wild Wildery Wilderness

My reflections and pictures after a week in the North Cascades and a discussion of the Wilderness Act. 

 

The Wild Wildery Wilderness

Wilderness, Wildness, Wildery, Wild,

It opens my eyes with the wonder of a child

Uncontrolled, Untrammeled, Untamed, Imprecise

What wonders unfold when left to its own device.

Naturalness, Naturalist, Natural, Nature,

Ferns, mosses, cedar and Doug fir

Glaciers, peaks, rivers and sea

Creatures, flowers, and then there’s me.  

Silently, Silence, Sound, Song

The community of creation sung all along

But did we hear rushing rivers or the Swainson’s Thrush?

Did we listen to the creaking snag? – don’t rush!

Solitude, Solitaire, Sole, Soul

Wandering alone connects me to the whole

In the city I am many, out here I am one

Though I coexist with all beings under the sun. 

Spirituality, Spiritual, Spirit, Aspire

The mountain peaks lift my heart ever higher

To the sky and to the heavens I envision my fate

Though I savor this beauty as I live and I wait.

Rejuvenation, Rejuvenate, Refine, Renew, 

Such richness in a place that we humans construe

Yet nourished, restored and free I am

And brought back to God like a long lost lamb.

Untrammeled, Untouched, Unwelcome, Unseen

Wilderness is a place of in-between  

We venture to visit, explore and discover

Still I must leave, and return to my lover.

Restrictions, Restrict, Restraint, Restrain,

Both a law and a choice for conserving wild terrain

With action and inaction, the latter more trying

Save living, nothing is more natural than dying.

Gratitude, Gracious, Gracefully, Grace, 

Thank you for allowing me to touch this place

Come again I will, for green-eyed I must confess 

I revere the Wild, Wildery, Wilderness.