To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by jmritz:
i can see the bird!

To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by RayEthier:
This is definitely a candidate for the Posthumous award.

To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by Bear_Music:
Not gloriously, but sadly, hanging on,
the White Ship trembles at the verge of dawn.
The Paper Albatross dips, and reveals
(in the White wings) a Whiteness that conceals.

'No way home against the wind!' taunts porpoise,
the while sharks nibble madly at the corpus
delicti, and some Whale-Judge from a Black sea
steams at the universe of poetry.

Words whirled, the White Words, vanish without trace.
Moray's a bailiff with a yawning face.
Anemone greets Hydra in the jury;
both bored, they stifle yawns ΓΆ€” it's an old story,

Brueghel's Icarus uttering once again
(this time in verse) the solitude of pain.
The Judge, of course, has heard it all before;
he thinks, in fact, that poetry is a bore

And has no business standing at the bench.
He wanders. He dreams of some fluky wench,
and hears, at a great distance, his Brothers singing.
He is the Whale, and the White Ship winging

Its hapless course is surface-bound forever,
chaste in the wind ΓΆ€” the wind that whispers 'Never!'
to all who plead the case of the raped poem,
the Word that, wounded, cannot find its home.

*************

It's a poem I wrote 20 years ago, and the image brings it back to my mind. Thanks for that. Lovely image. Bump to 9 from me.

To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by bohemka:
This is freakin' awesome.

I've just spent numerous minutes with your photo.

Yes, still awesome. One of my favorites.

To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by mitalapo:
At the beginning there is just a horizon, and then the birds and distant clouds emerge out of the sky emulsion. Thanks for the experience.

To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by bgable:
Too blurry

seal of solomon
by whiteroom

Comment by posthumous:
ah, the perfect crop.


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To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by ThingFish:
I find this image a bit too abstract and obscure to fit the bill for this challenge theme. Came back to this image for another look. I think I see a lighthouse and a seagull. But the whole image is just too blurry for me. I actually get a bit cross-eyed looking at it. I am sure you had your own reasons for presenting it this way though.

To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by saintaugust:
i love the out-of-the-box entries in this challenge. 7

To be a white bird
by whiteroom

Comment by bmartuch:
Very neat image. Love the oof.