“Towards The Sun” is taken on 35mm film while hiking Mount Coolum on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia.
Poem by Lucinda Johnson alias O’ Little Sister photographed by Danny McShane
I reach for the sun
Even when my heart no longer feels its warmth,
or my eyes no longer see it burn
I stood at the foot of the mountain
I started with a sure and steady solitary step
I began to tread the stony climb,
breathing in time, with each fall and rise
Grasping dew scattered branch,
tracing smooth eucalypt boughs, laced with scars
Climbing faster the moment I realised
I could hear the sea
Like an infinite call that I was about to learn something
Feel something,
See something
Peering out from the grey and green bower
like looking to a lover
To behold the expanse of a great and misty silver sky
and the crash of white waves, rippling onto the weathered shore
Stretching out, North to South
I looked down from my place in the clouds
and wished to be the sky and the sea
These moments are the hardest to break away from
They breathe life and break me at the same time
And it broke me as I turned away
Mist fell from my eyes, soon blurring my path
Shrouded in a veil of tender rain
My hair sticking to the side of my face
Clear dew diamonds dripping down my brow
Heavy and cold
Warm and light
Upon the crest and the crown
Silent with but the hearts beat and pound
Resting a while to the heavenly sounds
Soft open arms in the air surround
Streams from Kingdoms gate turned pale to bright
the numbness in my hands turned to life
I reached for the sun
and my heart felt its warmth
and my eyes saw it burn
It set me alight
Like a gold silhouette entwined
With the glittery gown of the mountaintop
Lifting our voices for the final song
As the colour and light
Made us new
And swept over us
Poem by O’ LITTLE SISTER:
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PHOTOGRAPHER:
Danny McShane
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