Amy Michelle Mosier

Rare and stark is the isolated island

Rare and stark is the isolated island

In its heart - its bipolar mood

And it stokes within the imagination

A fire - a want of pursuit.

 

Its knobby fingers reach out to a black sea -

Bringing roamers out to some land\'s end;

Its fjords entice sojourners in for some peace

After a frigid trip endured.

 

Its verdant mountains slope down to meet blue ice

That\'s hard like stone and impassable

And immediately known to wandering eyes

As earth that\'s beautiful but cruel.

 

It\'s a place where fact and legends are as one

And lava flows like a river;

Where in an entire spreading rocky plain

There grows one radiant flower;

 

Where the sun perseveres along the skyline

Then is gone in a vapid cloud

And my nocturnal thoughts run and take flight -

Dancing within an aural shroud.