Forgotten Passages



Lighthouse at Hecata Head Oregon

 

Forgotten Passages

 

 White tears

in gray blue cloth 

spread beneath my pulpit,            

 guardian dominion  

 unneeded,

 beacon of warning

unheeded,

reduced to an artifact

with no one home.

Fading facade

attends proud history

 preserved  only in 

wind blown whispers of ancient mariners,             

and photographs

taken by transient trippers.

A century of tumult

and torrent

now crumbled

into an icon

 more often than not

 humbled to

Gabriel’s clarion

“What is that?”

-Jerry Wendt 2012