Pic for a poem or poem for a pic

12/04/2005 09:10:14 PM · #351

The thread needs to be renamed to I am not bored. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the thread. Jeff

Any more pics?

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12/04/2005 11:00:14 PM · #352

Does anyone think a book could come out of this?

pidge

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12/04/2005 11:04:15 PM · #353

Originally posted by jsas:

Does anyone think a book could come out of this?

Yes

12/04/2005 11:09:03 PM · #354

I would love to do one using four photographers, doing specific shots and writing for them. Just a distant dream. I have been told I am not ready for a book.

pidge

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12/04/2005 11:15:46 PM · #355

Originally posted by jsas:

I would love to do one using four photographers, doing specific shots and writing for them. Just a distant dream. I have been told I am not ready for a book.

Don't let that discourage you. A lot of people don't know what they are talking about...

Poetry is also very personal, what some will dismiss as garbage others will embrace. I see no reason why you shouldn't try and pursue your goal

12/04/2005 11:17:56 PM · #356

Thank you pidge.

12/04/2005 11:26:09 PM · #357

The goal is definitely worth pursuing.

R.

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12/04/2005 11:29:46 PM · #358

Thank you Robert I have learned alot from you this past two weeks.

ArpeggioAngel

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12/05/2005 01:05:21 AM · #359

Definately don't sell yourself short. I have read all the poems in here, and everyone that has contributed has been amazing. I have really enjoyed reading them and I personally hope the thread continues. As enticement and to bump the thread yet again, I will throw another pic out here for anyone who cares to give it a shot. In fact, how about two?

Zebra shot was taken at the Wildlife World Zoo outside Phoenix.

taterbug

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12/05/2005 01:32:10 AM · #360

Originally posted by bear_music:

In case Tater has missed this one:

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Originally posted by taterbug:

Shorewrack

There is a harsh, a strict, cartography
to love we cannot master without grief.
We start our journeys hopeful that the sea
is clearly marked, as buoys mark a reef
that sailors outward bound and full of dreams
might make fair passage â�� so, to us, it seems

(in love's first flush, when we set sail and leave
our shore behind) that we will always ride
the surge of our desire. We never think
that love's vast sea gives us no place to hide,
nor roof nor shelter to wait out the storm,
nor hearth nor kindling that might keep us warm,

that we two sail alone, and must depend
each on the other; that we must be strong
enough to keep despair and fear at bay
against the coming of the uncertain day,
nor least of all that we might founder too,
shorewrack on the mud, like this abandoned shoe.

R.

Robert, this is awesome. You certainly nailed it! Very fitting. Did you know I spent 9 yrs in the Navy? It is very good, I thank you :-) I think the photo though pales in comparison to your poem!

I am still astounded by this thread. It is truly wonderful IMO. It's not often you see 12+ pages of positivity. No ranting, debate or controversy or anything. Great stuff, and an incredible display of talent. Thanks to all of the awesome poets contributing :-)

TooCool

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12/05/2005 01:36:31 AM · #361

Is it fair to ask for another poem?

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12/05/2005 02:00:25 AM · #362

Originally posted by taterbug:

Robert, this is awesome. You certainly nailed it! Very fitting. Did you know I spent 9 yrs in the Navy?

Yup! That's aprt of why i went that way with it. I'm an old seadog myself, though never Navy; I spent most of my life messing about with boats, though I can no longer afford to do so :-( I was even a sailmaker for a time...

Glad you liked it!

R.

Jammur

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12/05/2005 02:15:08 AM · #363

Ah, Bear, I should left you the 'Quiet Moorage' picture.
I just wanted to break the "Speaker for the Animals" mold. :)

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12/05/2005 02:16:21 AM · #364

Originally posted by Jammur:

Ah, Bear, I should left you the 'Quiet Moorage' picture.
I just wanted to break the "Speaker for the Animals" mold. :)

LOL. I was gonna grab it, but you beat me to it :-)

R.

justin_hewlett

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12/05/2005 02:19:56 AM · #365

Originally posted by jsas:

Any more pics?

Here's a few of mine if anyone is interested.

justin_hewlett

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12/05/2005 02:32:55 AM · #366

Originally posted by Jammur:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Home Again

Eight days out of Monterey
Held fast to the windward shore
The final passage charted
Home from the worldwide tour

The adventures now behind me
The perils all traversed
Asway at this quiet moorage
In golden memories immersed.

I can't tarry long here, though
There are challenges yet to meet.
As long as I am seaworthy
My log stays incomplete.

I hear the sea lanes calling me
To places I've never been
Distant lands and sun drenched isles
Then back home again.

jcmurray

This poem is simply amazing. It reminds me a lot of Alfred Tennyson's Ulysses.

12/05/2005 02:38:10 AM · #367

Originally posted by justin_hewlett:

Paths

The fence between the world and the sun
keeps nothing out, and can hold nothing in:
it is a boundary that makes no sense,
except that we will trust a well-built fence
to mark our limits for us. We begin
a journey freely, but when it is done

We look behind and see that guidance came
from unexpected sources, and we know
we did not travel lightly, like the wind,
but rather made our way from start to end
more like a tide-bound log, in ebb and flow
between two shores we cannot even name.

Robt.

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12/05/2005 02:41:08 AM · #368

Originally posted by justin_hewlett:

This poem is simply amazing. It reminds me a lot of Alfred Tennyson's Ulysses.

I am a part of all that I have met,
yet all experience is an arch, wherethro'
gleams that untravel'd world, whose margin fades
forever and forever when I move.

and

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
of all the western stars, until I die.

Love that poem! It's my emotional anthem as I near 60 :-)

R.

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justin_hewlett

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12/05/2005 02:52:25 AM · #369

Originally posted by bear_music:

Thanks a lot Robert, I really like it.

"we did not travel lightly, like the wind,
but rather made our way from start to end
more like a tide-bound log, in ebb and flow
between two shores we cannot even name."

This is my favorite part, very powerful. The image of a "tide-bound log" is great...and I can't believe how fast you wrote this. Thanks again. I posted it up in with the picture and accredited it to you as Robt Ward. If you prefer a different name/spelling, please let me know.

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12/05/2005 02:56:46 AM · #370

Originally posted by justin_hewlett:

This is my favorite part, very powerful. The image of a "tide-bound log" is great...and I can't believe how fast you wrote this. Thanks again. I posted it up in with the picture and accredited it to you as Robt Ward. If you prefer a different name/spelling, please let me know.

Well. that first couple lines popped into my head when I saw this, so I just went on cruise control. Why I decided on such a bizarre rhyme scheme I have NO idea: abccba, sheesh. Glad you like it. And "Robt. Ward" is correct :-)

R.

Artan

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12/05/2005 05:46:28 AM · #371

I would like to have ago at Tranquil Dawn - If that's OK

Originally posted by justin_hewlett:

Originally posted by jsas:

Any more pics?

Here's a few of mine if anyone is interested.

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Message edited by author 2005-12-05 05:47:20.

dewed

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12/05/2005 06:33:28 AM · #372

This is an image of my mother and myself 5 days before she died of cancer. My father died in March of this year, she passed away sept 1st. It's going to be an empty holiday fro me this year. Will you help me? I am poor at expressing myself with words.

David

librodo

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12/05/2005 08:28:04 AM · #373

I've said it once, I am saying it here again...many thanks for such a beautiful poem for this picture. This is one of my all-time favorite pictures. I am so proud to have inspired a genius in you. You should come up with a book of DPChallenge pictures. If you won't set a limit to the number of pictures, I will barrage you with them.:)

Salamat.

Manny

Originally posted by fayepek:

Originally posted by jsas:
Photo taken by Manny Librodo

"The Homeless Plight"

Eyes never meet
in a passing glance.
Compassion rarely
has a chance.
An emotional game
of hide-n-seek.
Hidden love from
the poor and weak.
A beggars life
is never rich,
a richer life
she longs to live.
A painful loss,
a crushing blow,
what caused her stress,
we'll never know.
Unless we have
compassion's sight,
we cannot see
the homeless plight.

This is another one that blows me away. I work with homeless families so this strikes deep inside me.. both the photo and the poem.

Thanks to both of you :)

Faye