An Inspiring Landscape

 

Why is such beauty before my eyes

should I sing or should I sigh?

Why is this created for me to see

to love, breathe and to be set free?

Each mountain, stream and lake

does my soul enrapture

for it is beyond all compare

Forests that slope down a mountain side

drift into a mist which

settles on a still gentle  water

to a reflection of a world turned upside down

A sky with colours and shades

clouds full of soft drenching rain

fermenting the morning dew

Flowers in their allocated space

in a landscape of such heavenly grace

Clouds that embrace the mountain peaks

sun and water dance together

Silhouettes of differing forms and shapes

span a vista from which there is no escape

It consumes as one beholds a

beauty from where no one knows

The soul glides into this realm of

perfection to discover no rejection

Nothing could be out of place, it is a masterpiece

painted on a canvas free of delusion

with no trace of deceit

The heavens, sun, moon and rain are here

the custodians of what its architect has designed

A craftsman gifted beyond all else

How I long to be there, 

to step beyond and into what I see

to savour the fragrance of creation

to be utterly alone where no human

blemish or erosion intrudes

A landscape forever changing

yet remaining in unparalleled and exquisite mystery

from whose hands are divine

and not begotten of time