Featured Poet: Celeste Snowber

           Long Beach, Vancouver Island 1990

Today's feature is by poet, Celeste Snowber, I have paired her poem with 

one of my images from Long Beach, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. 

"Ocean Lover" is the name of a book that is yet to be published 

featuring my black and white Canadian west coast images along with Celeste's wonderful poems.

Celeste Snowber, Ph.D.  is a dancer, writer and educator, who is an Associate Professor in Arts Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, outside Vancouver, B.C., Canada.   She has written numerous essays and poetry in various journals and chapters in books in the areas of the arts and is author of Embodied Prayer and co-author of Landscapes in Aesthetic Education. To find out more about Celeste and her work go to her website: www.celestesnowber.com

Random beauty

Breath stops

in the rush of wind

strolling creation’s canvas

rugged coast in fall light

I expand in the swirl

of a lover’s arms

lean in the face of sky

you sweep remnants of beach life

Black stones, smoothened shapes

darkened ovals, misshapen hearts,

circles half broken, feathers cut,

wood split, pebbles scattered,

shells: blue, beige and brown,

ropes of amber seaweed

sculpted  icons into

nature’s visual feast

placing of a  skilled artist

you perch kelp installation

in the elbow of sand

Designs of intertidal art

catalogued on the feet of sea

intricate curves and patterns

of random beauty.

Celeste Snowber