0038 cave dwellers

Primordial dwellings:

Humankind's first hearth and home.

From Earth's most sacred womb

We were birthed

To hunt and forage

In veld and vlei.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0037 hyaena

Hyaena

Mythical creature of the sun

who's ancient gift of warmth

brought life to this cold earth.

From gift-giver to child-stealer,

the chill of your voice

draws from humankind

a visceral response.

Maligned, revered, 

all before breakfast.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0036 island soul 01

Dragon Trees of Socotra Island

This alien grandchild
writes her own story.

Sometime hostess
of Ancient Mariners,
Always a harsh mistress.

No false promise
of lush, sweet meadow, 
she bares her strange and arid soul.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0035 greatness

Atitude

is 

Everything.

Not always to the lordly

go the spoils

Not always to the lowly

fall the foils.

Greatness

is in

the daring.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0034 window 01

the most 

solid intention

is powerless

against the flow of life.

change creeps up

and flows through the cracks

to make

a window

for the universe to peer through.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0033 great heart

Friend,

to rest in your understanding

is the sweetest gift.

To know

Friend,

that the beauty of yourself

chooses myself.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0032 son of nobility

Lord of the Forest

of impeccable lineage.

A son of nobility.

Evader of Knight and Villein,

O ancient observer of 

human folly.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0031 fossil

Helioceras heteromorph

Serenely survey from your

crenelated castle,

denizen of a long gone deep.

How strange

was your world?

©Kim Magennis 2015

0030 serenade

Raise your voices with me little ones.

Sing of the wildness that flows in our blood.

Declare our spirit to mountain and forest,

let them know

we are free.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0029 tree sisters

How long, sisters dear, have we stood together on this blackened slope?

How many inconsequential moments have bent and shaped us?

With wind and rain on our skins, and rough earth under root, does it even matter?

©Kim Magennis 2015

0028 aurora borealis

In painted skies

we hear the music of the universe,

we feel the cosmic pulse of life.

Never once alone, 

in this vast realm of light.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0027 leopard

The queen of the desert

rises to deepening shadows.

Masterfully self sufficient,

savagely independent.

Asking no mercy of the burning African Sun.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0026 Serengeti Spring

Splendid Serengeti Spring

redolent with new life and sweet grass,

thrumming with wildebeest song.

An epic journey

of incomprehensible proportions.

Driven by ancient memory

countless hooves

crush the soil,

The eternal pulse

of vibrant abundance throbs.

Splendid Serengeti Spring

remind my soul of nature's bounty,

connect me to my roots.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0025 beluga beauty

Ghostly water dancer.

Sweetly sing

of mermaids 

and castles 

of sparkling ice


©Kim Magennis 2015

0024 fascinated fish

Point of view

is everything.

What marvels 

do you choose to see?

©Kim Magennis 2015

0023 zebras

On grassy plains

of future uncertain

two heads are better than one

©Kim Magennis 2015

0022 Serengeti Sunset

Serengeti sunset

not always

dry and crowded with 

bustling animal life.

Open 

with endless possibilities,

Time and place 

are only human constructs.

©Kim Magennis 2015

0021 sun-child

What better way

To luxuriate

Than to bask with your belly

 In African Sun?

What better way

To grow wise

Than to watch the ebb and flow

Of her Tribes?

©Kim Magennis 2015

0020 dark prince

the prince of darkness 

on his day off

just hanging

©Kim Magennis 2015

0019 no dialogue needed

how many secret valleys

nestle

free of the human drama?

exposed only

to the planetary forces

of creation and destruction

do they slumber and dream?

do they feel water and wind carving their slopes,

or the snow dusting their summits?

as old as time, they are what they are

no apology or explanation

no dialogue needed

©Kim Magennis 2015

0018 to catch a rainbow

to catch a rainbow

paint it on a tree

soak it deep in branch, trunk and root

©Kim Magennis 2015

0017 Flights of fancy

A fearsome predator

Incomprehensibly elegant

on gossamer wing

©Kim Magennis 2015