by Bela Johnson | Jul 7, 2017 | creativity, musings, personal, poetry, Uncategorized, writing
Quill pressed to vellum and the raven liquid bleeds onto the page, seeping into parchment as words impress themselves on minds of those who seek elucidation; There is no turning back save the alchemy of fire, while a mere century later, fingers snap plastic keys as a...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 27, 2016 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
Crystalline silhouettes contract and pucker, kissed now by sun like a lover rounding shards of earth where thundering hooves of waves seek ecstatic ground, flicking fingers of saltwater sucking themselves dry in flat palms of lava braced against shoreline above which...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 20, 2016 | Hawaii, musings, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
Wind and sea, earth and fire; sun scorches water, shriveling it to savory powder as it dries upon rocks bridging tidepools; Salt in the ocean floats bodies at its pleasure, pulls sand out to sea for months at a time and spits it back where and when it wants; Wind...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 23, 2016 | friends, lifestyle, nature, poetry, Uncategorized, women
One of them chuckles, teeth barely showing, jaws tight as if guarding unspoken secrets buried in the throat, while the other throws back her head and chortles, mouth open to the heavens as though urging every luminary to brilliance unseen by spirits of the day; A...
by Bela Johnson | May 10, 2016 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, poetry, spirituality, Uncategorized
The most gentle of men sits perched on a rock, casting about for water generous enough to pull him out and spit him back on shore, delighted as a child. What does life require of us but this, that we discover contentment in the simple things, acts of grace which...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 1, 2016 | Hawaii, lifestyle, musings, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
In the phenomenon of night sky, I watched the moon rise full against an indigo canvas; Rose-rimmed clouds drifting along, causing stars to glisten like the silvery skeletons of jets in flight, billowing by under stealth of inky half-light, advancing across the heavens...
