Quarantine Poems Inspired by the Land of Fire and Ice

This period of quarantine has been very mediative for me. Instead of all the rushing about, I have been feeling called to distill things to their simplest essence. It has been such a solitary time, but sometimes aloneness gives us the time and space to connect with the transcendent in the here and now. For me, to believe in the possibility of the next moment whatever that moment might be, brings me hope. What follows are a few photographs with short poetic phrases or Haikus (though I would not consider myself expert at this form at all) evoking what speaks to me now as I reminisce on these experiences, both what was there and not there and what is here and not here.

Lone Farmhouse on the Fjord

A lone wood farmhouse

Mountains blanketed with snow

The river runs by

Sunrise over the Frozen Waterfall

Vast white expanses

A veil of frozen water

Golden Light Streams Through

Sunlit Icebergs

Sunlit icebergs glow

Rolling waves curl in on themselves

Concealing and revealing

Ice Patterns

Threads of ice converge

Dark waters pass below

A sketch for strange time