Exquisite dragon flashes gilded wings,
Plays touch and go on placid lake waters
And then decides to pull fishers heartstrings,
While it alights to avoid shoreline hunters.
© Ilija Lukić 2022
Written at the request of my friend Kelly Riverwalker Thomas to capture his experience of watching a dragon fly.
Vivid memories captivate mind’s eye as I muse about my days in jeans, straw hat and spurs, while cowboying with friends on the high plains of the Llano Estacado Plateau across Texas Panhandle and New Mexico borderlands. Every moment of chasing ornery range cattle down draws and over sand hills into boundless horizons before settling down at days end under fiery sunsets is a lifetime of adventure. The horse in the photo is "Crazy Eyes."
© Ilija Lukić 2022
Unfold life’s journey
Without rush to arrive.
By choice linger
On waypoints of gladness,
Since the requisites
Heart and soul need to thrive
Are without doubt
Love, peace and happiness.
© Ilija Lukić 2022
