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11/28/2005 03:18:12 PM · #176 |
Such Talent we have here. jsas that was incredible.
And bear_music the one on Jutildas....show stopping. |
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11/28/2005 03:20:38 PM · #177 |
| Robert you can tell you love horses. good stuff |
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11/28/2005 03:25:00 PM · #178 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Originally posted by Jutilda:
These are fantastic. Bear - I was particularly impressed with yours. WOW
I guess I should post a pic worthy of some prose... Hmmmmm
Well I think I'd like some inspired words for this one:
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Robert - you are simply a gift!!! Just reading that poem got me all teary! Thanks so much. Love love love your prose!!!!
Judy
Visionary
Not all that long ago, I learned to see
more clearly from the corner of my eye
than I had ever done by looking straight:
for me, the "unvarnished truth" is like a lie
the world taught me when I was still too young
to know how sweet things tremble on the tongue,
How beauty lives at the periphery
where sun and shadow vanish into haze.
I'm older now, and wiser, or at least
more easy in the passage of my days.
I take my seeing simply, from the source ΓΆ€”
from light and mist on meadow and on horse.
R. |
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11/28/2005 03:34:13 PM · #179 |
Originally posted by Jutilda:
Robert - you are simply a gift!!! Just reading that poem got me all teary! Thanks so much. Love love love your prose!!!!
Judy |
Judy,
I'm glad you like it, but for the record this is poetry, not prose... :-)
R. |
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11/28/2005 03:45:49 PM · #180 |
Originally posted by jsas:
"Close to Home"
I dream of a shore
from long ago.
Where cliffs and waves
stir below.
Off in the distance
a horizon of blue.
Consoles me like
an old friend would do.
I feel the sun's warmth
upon my face.
That feeling of excitement
will never erase.
But long since moving
my thoughts still roam
and bring to me
that beautiful scene
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That's perfect. I really appreciate this. Since trying to write something, but failing to do so, it sort of felt as though the photo was incomplete somehow. Thanks for filling in the gap.
Sean |
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11/28/2005 03:54:48 PM · #181 |
Originally posted by pidge:
I think DPC should do a compilation of all these AMAZING poems and photos and put them together as an album or something.
I know I'd buy one |
If I get bored this evening I may play around with compiling the photos and poems on a website.
Nordlys |
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11/28/2005 04:02:45 PM · #182 |
Originally posted by CalliopeKel:
If anyone feels up to this one.
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Stone Music
The wall around the world is contagious.
Just facing the new morning is a chore.
I started losing hope the day I woke
to realize that my wife had barred the door
between us with wrought iron and raw disdain,
then turned to piling stones across our world.
It is the wall of my wife on the world
that has left me the vestige of myself:
I am a comet flung, a dying pearl
of light, against the universal wall.
I never was a rival to her sun,
nor did I wish to be, and this vast dark
about me reflects nothing I have done,
is no fate I deserve, or that I sought.
What did the woman want? I wish I knew.
Did she take something when she left her wall?
Did she wall in what she intended to,
or did she have in mind a walling out?
No matter: rocks become what they must be:
while she worked stone, the stone was working her.
She had a dream that walls would set her free ΓΆ€”
and she dreamed well, for now she's gone from me.
R.
Message edited by author 2005-11-28 16:22:26. |
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11/28/2005 04:14:30 PM · #183 |
OMG that is so tragic. Yet so true of what walls do, what their illusions and truth can be and are.
How could that pic not incite Mood? I feel like a rock fell on me..LOL
Thanks R. |
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11/28/2005 04:32:03 PM · #184 |
"Memories"
Tatered ropes tell of years gone by.
They tell of a man's, childhood adventures.
Amazing how many things a jungle gym can be.
When a child's imagination sets it free.
One day it is sailing on wind and open wave.
As the mighty Constitution, stern and brave.
Weathering the storms or fighting tyranny.
Fending off the pirates from stealing the bounty.
The next day it would be a soldiers fort.
With the enemy surrounding without support.
A few good men stand and resist
and when the smoke clears only honor exists
Now you stand there with a tearful eye.
You tell your childhood, one more goodbye
but your imagination still holds the keys.
To every now and then unlock
those precious memories.
Message edited by author 2005-11-28 16:43:35. |
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11/28/2005 04:38:21 PM · #185 |
Originally posted by jsas:
"Peeking Through"
Butterflies
More like flying flowers
with beauty and elegance.
They come in various size and colors,
each one is splendidly made.
Floating through the air
with effortless ease.
Like dreams
they fall from the sky
and when they fly.
Time seems to stand still.
Look there!
Infront of you
is one right now
peeking through. |
Jeff, this is absolutely perfect, thank you! |
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11/28/2005 04:42:18 PM · #186 |
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11/28/2005 05:02:16 PM · #187 |
Wow thankyou sooooo much, just showed this to my bro and he thought it was awsome. He always used to be the king of the ship and i was his slave... but thats a story for a different time.
Thanks so much again!!
-Dan |
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11/28/2005 05:09:26 PM · #188 |
Originally posted by bandit:
Bandit, "Concealed in a Monet Garden" |
Domestication is but a myth.
Across ten thousand years the jungle calls
I hunt by tooth and claw,
beneath my sudden rush my prey still falls.
The lion is my kin,
and though my antelope is merely mouse,
upon my head there sits a crown.
For I am still the King in my own house.
(Thought I'd adopt an orphan.)
Message edited by author 2005-11-28 23:42:53.
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11/28/2005 06:10:46 PM · #189 |
Originally posted by Jammur:
Originally posted by bandit:
Bandit, "Concealed in a Monet Garden" |
Domestication is but a myth.
Across ten thousand years the jungle calls
I hunt by tooth and claw,
beneath my sudden rush my prey still falls.
The loin is my kin,
and though my antelope is merely mouse,
upon my head there sits a crown.
For I am still the King in my own house.
(Thought I'd adopt an orphan.) |
This poem is great for the picture. Couldn't have said it better myself. =) Jeff
Message edited by author 2005-11-28 18:11:13. |
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11/28/2005 06:33:51 PM · #190 |
Jeff, I don't want to be a poetry hog, and I promise this will be my last request. You did such a fantastic job with the other butterfly photo and it gave me an idea, that I have one more for you. At Christmas time I make a calendar of my shots from that year, and the other butterfly was shot in 2004. The one below is from this year and I would love to put a poem with it (giving you credit of course) for my 2006 calendar. Clients, family and friend ask for it every year and it's become tradition. :-) Let me know if you don't think it's fair to others, I totally understand. Thank you, your writing is inspirational as well as your willingness to give the gift of your words to fellow DPC'ers.
Edit to include thumbnail: 
Message edited by author 2005-11-28 18:34:13. |
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11/28/2005 06:36:27 PM · #191 |
| Sounds good Tina I will get to it after I the Yellow House for Art. thanks Jeff =) |
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11/28/2005 08:02:03 PM · #192 |
Originally posted by I Enjoy Ham:
Wow thankyou sooooo much, just showed this to my bro and he thought it was awsome. He always used to be the king of the ship and i was his slave... but thats a story for a different time.
Thanks so much again!!
-Dan |
You are welcome I have four boys of my own and can relate to the adventures. Jeff |
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11/28/2005 10:09:45 PM · #193 |
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"Grandpa's Place"
Take me back to a simple time
where simplicity gave peace of mind.
With family and friends to reminisce,
surrounded by nature's heavenly bliss.
Overlooking a valley of white pine trees,
the refreshing touch of a mountain breeeze.
The row of chairs where stories were told
speak of memories that my heart still holds.
A chance to sit with Grandpa awhile,
The crack of his joke always made me smile.
These special times call my mind to retrace
and remember the yellow house
that was Grandpa's Place
Message edited by author 2005-11-28 22:32:52. |
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11/28/2005 11:21:33 PM · #194 |
Originally posted by jsas:
"Grandpa's Place" |
Wow! That was great! Much appreciated! I can only imagine the expression on Granpa's face when he reads it...
LOL - That is him back in April. My mom totally credits him for my sense of humor, so it's funny you put in that line about the crack of his joke - he always jokes and always makes me smile.
Thanks again Jeff - as others have said, you are talented and gifted. |
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11/28/2005 11:30:57 PM · #195 |
| You're welcome Ken and thank you. |
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11/29/2005 12:23:18 AM · #196 |
"Adam"
As Adam sat there in all his glory
He didn't know how good he had it
We all know the plot and story
but we never got to live it.
Blind to the naked truth
Adam took it all for granted
leisure and freedom come to an end
His life his ignorance will supplant.
Once the ruler of nature
Now the servant.
Message edited by author 2005-11-29 00:23:54. |
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11/29/2005 12:41:45 AM · #197 |
I want to thank everyone for the opportunity to write for your awesome pictures. There was over 37 pics submitted on this thread. Thanks to Robert, saintaugust, artan, mcmurma, jammur and jpochard (for poem and pic) and last but not least Art for his comments poem. I can't believe the response, I just wanted a few but WOW! I had a great time I just have one more to do for Tina and the thread is caught up unless someone wants me to write for a new one or one that has already been written for, no disrespect. Jeff =)
PS I may get bored again soon. |
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11/29/2005 12:45:57 AM · #198 |
You Rock Jeff!
I keep coming back to this thread and just finding one delight after the other. Truly great stuff here! If you do get the time and feel like another, I would love to see one for this photo:
thanks :-) |
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11/29/2005 12:48:30 AM · #199 |
Well it was certainly my pleasure, this is way worse than the update button. Let us know the next time you get bored! I don't want to suggest any more of mine now, to give others a chance, but it's hard to hold back! I'm impressed with how all of the poets have interpreted the images, something I don't think non-photographers could have done as well.
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11/29/2005 12:52:50 AM · #200 |
| Yes I will write as long as they keep coming. =) |
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