Hi, I really like the delicate zen quality of this poem.  The acrostic type (hard to convey online so well done), also reminds me a little of ee cummings, and works very well, as does the rhythm and little pun on the word 'where'.  The only thing that bothers me is the slightly trivial nature of the last line, which follows the wonderful "the horizon meets your soul".  I know what you mean, but I don't think the lline "while you still can see it" is strong enough for the last line of this short poem or for the intensity of the line before it.  It's a little too prosaic.  Do you mean, for example, before you are 'too old' to see it, or before you die, or before our hampster wheel of modern living leaves the important subsumed under the busy?  Can you think of a more powerful line to convey exactly what you mean?  You could even dispense with the last line altogether I think, but again, use your acrostic skills to make that line "horizon meets your soul" a visual one (maybe breaking it up).  Just a few options to think about!    All the best.  Maggie

I agree with joe about the layout, it gives the poem life and vitality...it's own image and form before the reader gets a chance to read the words. I am constantly impressed by you're use of saying so much with so little. Nice work norm.
-Amanda

Norm,

That is a wonderful place to be. The place between somewhere (the known of a person) and nowhere (typically where that person would not want to go). i think it's funny how nowhere sometimes becomes everywhere or even somewhere.

This poem describes where i was sitting on the rocky shore overlooking Lake Superior. 

i also find it interesting that this piece is asking for 'awareness'.  i think that awareness is not something that can not be regained unless one is dead. What do you think of removing "while" in the last line and maybe em-dashing the word "soul" on the second to the last line? The point of this poem is to make us realize that there is more than comfortable and nothing else wanted. Why not emphasize that with a more positive remark? 

~tim