Four Ways of Seeing One Great Wave, by John Paul Caponigro

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai (Japan) 1831

Four Ways of Seeing One Great Wave

amid crashing waves
the clear and present dangers
mount fuji can wait

come tsunami come
you purifying beauty
i embrace your death

only the big waves
reveal the mountains under
what the water hides

fuji enduring
wave after wave after wave
eventually falls

John Paul Caponigro

John Paul Caponigro is an internationally collected visual artist and published author. He leads unique adventures in the wildest places on earth to help participants creatively make deeper connections with nature and themselves. View his TEDx and Google talks at johnpaulcaponigro.com.