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04/19/2012 10:38:09 PM · #1 |
And nature, from a simple recipe... Meet John Wain, and be inspired by this:
Reason for Not Writing Orthodox Nature Poetry
The January sky is deep and calm.
The mountain sprawls in comfort, and the sea
Sleeps in the crook of that enormous arm.
And Nature from a simple recipe–
Rocks, water mist, a sunlit winter's day–
Has brewed a cup whose strength has dizzied me.
So little beauty is enough to pay:
The heart soon yields up its store of love,
And where you love you cannot break away.
So sages never found it hard to prove
Nor prophets to declare in metaphor
That God and Nature must be hand in glove.
And this became the basis of their lore.
Then later poets found it easy going
To give the public what they bargained for,
And like a spectacled curator showing
The wares of his museum to the crowd,
They yearly waxed more eloquent and knowing,
More slick, more photographic, and more proud:
From Tennyson with notebook in his hand
(His truth to Nature fits him like a shroud)
To moderns who devoutly hymn the land.
So be it: each is welcome to his voice;
They are a gentle, if a useless, band.
But leave me free to make a sterner choice;
Content, without embellishment, to note
How little beauty bids the heart rejoice,
How little beauty catches at the throat.
Simply, I love this mountain and this bay
With love that I can never speak by rote,
And where you love you cannot break away.
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Message edited by author 2012-04-19 22:52:43.
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04/19/2012 10:43:20 PM · #2 |
[i]...But leave me free to make a sterner choice;
Content, without embellishment, to note
How little beauty bids the heart rejoice...
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Nahh, methinks Minimal is the way to go. |
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04/19/2012 10:53:03 PM · #3 |
Good point :-) Edited original post...
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04/19/2012 10:59:16 PM · #4 |
| Earth Day, April 22, 2012. Seems a good match. |
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04/19/2012 11:08:01 PM · #5 |
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04/20/2012 03:20:44 AM · #6 |
| Awesome, a John Wayne challenge! Nice suggestion, pilgrim. |
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04/20/2012 05:59:00 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by MargaretN:
-100 (hate JPEGs) |
(the above) x 100
Message edited by author 2012-04-20 05:59:18. |
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04/20/2012 08:54:26 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
Originally posted by MargaretN:
-100 (hate JPEGs) |
(the above) x 100 |
So don't enter. It's been said before to people who've made similar comments about the last minimal and about expert challenges. :)
Alternately, set your camera to raw + jpeg when you see the challenge start, but before you shoot anything. that way you don't need to worry about "i only shot in raw, baw baw baw baw" :)
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04/20/2012 09:50:45 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Earth Day, April 22, 2012. Seems a good match. |
Earth Day, Schmearth day. Blech.
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04/20/2012 02:05:07 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by RyanWareham:
Originally posted by mike_311:
Originally posted by MargaretN:
-100 (hate JPEGs) |
(the above) x 100 |
So don't enter. It's been said before to people who've made similar comments about the last minimal and about expert challenges. :)
Alternately, set your camera to raw + jpeg when you see the challenge start, but before you shoot anything. that way you don't need to worry about "i only shot in raw, baw baw baw baw" :) |
x1000 yeah, you jpg-fraidy cats! Grow a set already!!! ;-) |
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04/20/2012 02:07:11 PM · #11 |
| A delightful poem, a delightful challenge, just hope I'm around when it comes about. |
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