Norway, land of inspiration.

I wrote a lot of poetry while working in Norway.  It was such a beautiful country with beautiful and down to earth people, that it was hard not be inspired and pensive about life.  None of it will ever be published in a greatest poems of all times style of book, but it was a relaxing and thought provoking way to spend some down time with myself. So , without fear of reprimand and ridicule here is one of my favourites.  This poem flowed from my mind one afternoon while sitting on the balcony in spring, looking down the long glaciated valley that I called home.  Green grass carpeting the fields along the valley, snow slowly melting on the peaks and a gentle breeze carrying butterflies to golden flowers everywhere.

As the sun descends to kiss the horizon

these thoughts come clearly to me 

through the spring mist.

There is no one beauty in the world, 

just one world which is beautiful.

By embracing new places and allowing no stagnation

we have the chance to see beauty around each new corner.

All that is required is to open our eyes

and look closely at what lays before us at any point in time.

Feel it move within our hearts, souls and minds.

If we walk with our eyes closed

we become lost in an obscurity

that shields the individual from what the purpose of living

really

is.

It is to challenge ourselves, to experience and to learn.

To win, to lose, to conquer, to concede.

But most importantly.....

to shine.