Grand Canyon Haiku

Blue sky eagles fly

Red canyon walls glowing wild

Weary hikers smile

This simple Haiku above was written by a child--and it remains my fave. I saw it at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center and it sparked a series of my own. Enjoy!

Safe perch atop Grand Canyon

Fear of heights now past

Condor land below so high

Perception deceives distance

Flattening the depths

Rock reality prevails

Ancient history presents

Boulder color show

Majestic mountains speak

Paleozoic looming

Red wall limestone warmth

"The Great Unconformity"

Patient carving of canyon

Erosion gorges

El Rio Colorado

Ever deepening river

Sulfate smog above

Still magnificent beauty

My heart sinks with the sunset's

Final pink of day

Spirits depart from earth here

At Grand Canyon's fragile edge

The wind has carried

Dear David's ashes away

Ancestral Pueblo people

Seasonal nomads

The Painted Desert beckons...