Wild the north wind blows on stormy nights and passing days in sparse winter sun and dark cloud surfing grey and white haze.
Hollow tones echo cliff shores as calling birds gather, drift and scatter separate ways. So long a storm plays on treeless land and white-topped waves.
Notes ring on music staves- another bird's call projects, encircles.... sinks like graves and stone in crumbling earth.
Here is now the birth of calm depth and season's point where change rides changeless, free for earth and sea.
Distant peaks emerge....clear as day. The hermit's lantern turns to guide the way. Hermit's Way - F. J. Rogers