Tag: northern lights

  • Further Encounters With Aurora

    Further Encounters With Aurora

    From a series of poems written during my stay in Lapland.

    I thought the time
    had finally come
    to meet again:
    the right month,
    the right place.

    But shame on me
    for undervaluing
    your unpredictability.
    You’re a slap in the face,
    a rinse of humility.

    You appear at your fancy,
    wrapped in clouds,
    and to frozen photographers
    with tripods and all,
    you blow raspberries.

    Showing up in pictures
    but not to naked eyes?
    Okay, we get it:
    being taken for granted
    is not your style.

    As per our old habit,
    you come when I’m leaving.
    Is our situationship toxic
    at this point in our story?
    I guess we’ll be seeing.
  • First Encounter With Aurora

    First Encounter With Aurora

    Oh, Aurora,
    how many people
    keep chasing you?
    It is a riddle
    when your show is due.

    Aurora, kaboom!
    A green light!
    Is it really you,
    this fiery kite
    in the deep blue?

    Shy Aurora,
    behind a thin veil
    made out of mist,
    as a first date
    I got the gist.

    Aurora, alas,
    I must say goodbye
    as day makes way
    and away you die.
    We’ll meet again

    somewhere,
    sometime.