I
There are moments
when the eye is beguiled
and the old brain fails
to glean meaning in signals
relayed through rods and cones,
the biological light-catchers
coloring our worlds.
I hunt for the familiar
among patterns and textures
splattered with nature’s brush
in chaotic precision.
My eyes seek fingerholds in crevices,
a path between stones
and perception of depth
before I venture a tentative step.
Yet, there are those moments
I am not meant to see
or pry open the secrets
and chart my journey
in illusory safety.
I soften my gaze
submit to the wonder
without etching borders
skip into creation
and be.
II
Nature’s tapestry
Paths hidden in greens and grays
Bewitch my old eyes
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Thank you to Sue Vincent for the wonderful prompt that fooled with my eyes and brain.
Join her every Thursday for a new photo prompt.
Happy Writing!
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Diana you are a genius! notes out of a picture – you are good at. It was amazing to read it. You nailed it too well! I must watch more of your picture poem! Well done!
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Thank you! I have a lot of fun with these photo prompts – just letting the muse loose! I’m glad you enjoyed this one 🙂 ❤
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Beautiful! The words you choose is just amazing!
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You made me smile this morning. Thank you. I enjoy these photo prompts and reading what everyone writes. You might try one? 😀
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Sure, I love your book. I’ll send my review soon.
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Thank you so much. I’m looking forward to it. 🙂
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A beautiful piece of writing.
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Thank you. It was an interesting photo and hard for my eyes and brain to sort out. I’m glad you liked the result. 🙂 Have a great weekend!
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I love the way this poems moves like someone looking for something.
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I was having trouble with the perspective in the photo, Mark, and couldn’t seem to find a way into it. So I wrote about that! I’m always happy when a poet has a good word for my attempts at poetry. Thank you!
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I love what you made out of this photo Diana. You are so talented! I hope you are having a nice summer. I have been missing in action lately.
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Thanks, Antonia, for the lovely comment. Missing in action is fine. Prioritizing in life really shouldn’t put blogging ahead of family and friends and enjoying the summer. Life shouldn’t be lived in front of a screen. 🙂 So nice to hear from you, though!
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Very true! I hate being away though, especially unexpectedly. Glad to be back! 😀
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Your poetry is a delight, Diana.
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Thanks, Robbie. These are fun and I like seeing what everyone else writes as much as I like writing them. I’m glad you enjoyed my attempt at poetry. 🙂
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A lovely and creative write, Diana. Beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you, Iris. I labored over it, and it switched between prose and poetry a bit before it landed. 🙂 I’m glad you liked it! ❤
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Gorgeous picture and a poem to match! Well done once again, D! I’d love to see that place in person, and get the full effect of the textures and colors (pictures never do those natural scenes justice 🙂 )
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I’d like to visit too and get a feel for the depth. For some reason this played with my eyes and seemed almost 2-dimensional. Thanks for the lovely comment, Julie. Happy Writing! Can’t wait to hear more about your retreat. 😀
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Beautiful writing in a single post, indeed.
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Thank you. I try to do something on the creative side every few posts. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Happy Writing. 🙂
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Beautiful writing 💕
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Thanks, Karen. I’m glad you liked it. Have a lovely day ❤
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Sorry my blog comments got repeated. I didn’t think I pressed send twice. 😊
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I didn’t notice. No worries. 🙂
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It printed twice, on a couple of them. Feel free to delete one, any time! 🙂
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This is full of gorgeous description and you give us more than meets the eyes (and beyond nature, delving into your lovely, beautiful mind.)
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Thanks, Robin. Tornado Boy would say you are the best commenter ever in the universe of all time. 🙂 Thanks so much for reading, my friend. You always leave me with a smile. 🙂
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I’m glad I can bring smiles to your face. I feel close to you, like a “real” friend. I loved picturing your Tornado Boy in his finest “birthday suit,” hosing down the deck and inside, accidentally.
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Thanks, Robin. I feel the same way. Hugs.
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Very lovely, Diana. Nature is truly astounding. Rocks have many qualities, not only the beauty, history and texture, but a bit of majesty mixed in also. I particularly loved these lines: “among patterns and textures/splattered with nature’s brush/in chaotic precision.” Beautiful!
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Thanks, Lana. I’m flattered that you enjoyed it. I like the idea that there is a hidden precision in chaos, and that sometimes we aren’t meant to analyze, only to experience. ❤
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I certainly like that idea also 😀
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There’s something about rocks–their sturdiness, history, how they collect all the truths of the past and keep them for anyone who wants to look. Amazing rocks.
Oh, the plants are nice too!
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Great comment, Jacqui! Rock is a profound compliment to other Earthly elements – solid, still, and silent – unlike plants, water, and air which is constantly moving and changing. Because of that, they do seem to hold the ancient memory of things that otherwise would be lost. You need to try your hand at a little mysticism, my friend. 🙂
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Perfect. And very appropriate for me at the moment. I am so impressed at how you managed to make poetry out of biology. Beautifully done!
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Ha ha. Poetry is everywhere – even in biology. I’m glad this spoke to you, Dawn. Thanks so much for stopping by to read. 🙂 ❤
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Spellbinding, Diana. Hugs on the wing.
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“Spellbinding” I like that! Thanks so much for stopping by to read. Hugs, my friend, and Happy Writing!
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Just superb, Diana.
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Thanks, Sue. A really interesting prompt! I would like to go there and find the path. 🙂
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The path leads between the watchers… and I’ll tell you about it on Thursday 😉
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Just beautiful and beguiling Diana!
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Thanks, Jess. It was an interesting prompt that I couldn’t make heads or tails of. 🙂 So went where it led me. Happy Writing!
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You too Diana!
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Beautifully said. You have captured that, which eludes most.
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Thanks, Barbara. No matter how much I looked at this prompt, I couldn’t see the path, physically or into a story. So I wrote about being okay with that. 🙂 I so glad you appreciated the message. Have a great week!
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“I am not meant to see
or pry open the secrets
and chart my journey
in illusory safety.”
… oh, but how we would like to be able to!!
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Yes, wouldn’t that be nice. No risks, no stumbling or running full speed ahead into dead ends. Sometimes the best choice is to rest and simply be.
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I just want to know it will be ok in the end so I can stop stressing over the small stuff along the way.
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I have faith that it will all be just as it should be in the end. All we need to do is fill our lives up with love. 🙂
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Amen 🙂
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The photo, the prompt, the words, the meaning, all beautiful. Really enjoyed reading this.
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Thanks, Tric. It was a tough one, but I gave it a go. I’m glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Beautiful and inspiring, Diana. xo
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Thanks, Bette. Another one that I waffled over – poetry or prose, done or keep tweaking. I’m glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Beautifully done Diana, looking at life through the creative eye. 🙂 x
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Thanks, Debby. Glad you enjoyed this take on the prompt. It was a little different. Have a great week, my friend. ❤
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You too Dian ❤
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I admit to looking at that image and not being able to make too much of it – and then you wrote so beautifully about that very thing 🙂 I love the line about softening our gaze. So often in art – and life – we see more clearly when we do that……
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I had a similar reaction, fumbled around, and just went with it. And you totally got that part about softening our gaze. It provide a completely different picture. Thanks for stopping by to read. 🙂
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This is a lovely poem, Diana, and a really good use of the prompt photograph.
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Thanks Robbie. It was a really interesting prompt. The more I looked at it, the less I understood it. Weird, but I could write about that. 😀
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This is a lovely evocative poem Diana working on two simultaneous levels the description of a physical journey and the underlying journey through I want to say life… but it is not that….
To me it is how our changing senses (changing with age) affect the way we perceive the world which effects the way we interact with it and even changing things in the past like how we remember interacting with it – the echoes are endless when you start to consciously analyse your words.
Now, I may be a million miles off the mark, but I hope I am not because if I ‘got it’ I think you succeeded in presenting these complex interwoven thoughts beautifully
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You got it, Paul. I was layering it physically and metaphorically, as well as looking at the image as a photo versus a place to explore. Hard eyes looking for concrete details and soft eyes perceiving it all at once as a mosaic of texture and color, I’m not quite entering my dotage, but I do think wonder creeps back into our lives as we move past a certain age. Thanks for the fabulous comment and happy writing! ❤
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My pleasure and thank you for the lovely poem which (obviously) resonated so well with me!
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Would you mind if I use some of these lines for the quotes I use on instagram and my blog in the future? (I will put your name on it, of course)
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Of course. you can. I’m totally flattered and slightly tongue-tied. I’m glad you liked the poem, my friend. Hugs ❤
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Yay! Keep on writing..I like using original quotes because it stands out more…and your writing is just phenomenal 😊
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😀 😀
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Really nice, Diane. 🙂
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Thank you, Celestine. A wonderful compliment from a lovely poet as yourself. Have a wonderful week. 🙂
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You explained the way a photographer might see things, Diana.
“I hunt for the familiar
among patterns and textures
splattered with nature’s brush
in chaotic precision.”
Beautiful words my friend.
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Thanks for the sweet compliment, Mary. I love looking at photos and wish I had more of an eye for taking them. The prompt looked almost 2-dimensional to me. I kept hunting for the way in and finally had to let it be. Thus the poem. Hugs, my friend. 🙂
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Beautiful invitation to wander and be a while.
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Thank you. I think there are times when we just have to shut off the brain, appreciate the view and be. So glad you stopped by. 🙂
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Agreed D. 🙂
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really nice!
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Thanks for stopping by to read. Have a great week. 🙂
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I am in awe of your ability to extract such meaning and beauty simply from a photo. ‘Submit to the wonder’ – I love that. You are so talented, and your words always make me happy!
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This is such a lovely comment. I was boggled by the image and decided that sense of disorientation was beautiful in its own way. I’m glad the poem reflected that. Thanks. Hugs ❤
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There’s a path ?? No matter the image, you paint a lovely picture in words, D. Could have been prose, but it would have been poetic.
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I think there’s a path. Isn’t there? Ha ha. My eyes couldn’t get a handle on the image. Thanks, Van. Have a wonderful week. 😀
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So lovely, Diana! ❤️
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Thanks, Jennifer. I never know where these prompts will take me and just go with the flow. Happy Writing! 🙂
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Fantastic! So you could follow the path through those crevices Diana! I kept hanging…waiting for help! Have a wonderful week. 🙂
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Thank you, Balroop. The image almost looked two-dimensional to me, a tapestry of color and texture. I knew there was a path but couldn’t see it, and finally let it be. So glad you liked it. ❤
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Diane , this is beautiful . “There are moments I am not meant to see”, such amazing insight so beautifully expressed, the final lines forming a lovely senryu. Thank you dear poetess!
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High praise coming from a poetess that I so admire, Holly. I found the image baffling to the eye and decided to submit and go with that. I never know where these prompts will lead. ❤
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Well done, awesome! ❤
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I love how you did this, Diana 🙂
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Thanks, Judy. I get a kick out of these prompts and never know where they’ll lead. Have a great week and happy poeting. 🙂
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Well you always manage to go off in unexpected directions!
Have a good week too, Diana 🙂
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You never fail to amaze me with the images you evoke with your tapestry of words. This was purely stunning. Vivid and lyrical.
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Thanks for the lovely comment, Mae. Actually, I was confused by the image and surrendered to writing about that. 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it.
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I was venturing on the path with you, as I read your words. There are lovely gems in there. I particularly loved those lines “patterns and textures / splattered with nature’s brush / in chaotic precision.” and “Nature’s tapestry / Paths hidden in greens and grays”. Thanks for the lovely walk painted in your words, Diane <3!
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Thanks for reading. I had trouble seeing the path in all the color and texture, so went with that in prose, then poetry, then prose, then poetry. I think the whole writing endeavor was about confusion. Ha ha. And then letting go. 🙂
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Haha that process sounds so familiar. Your prose is poetic anyway that makes the bridge easier to cross from one to the other. It was my pleasure. I love reading your words!
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This is truly wonderful and very lovely.
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Thanks, Jennie. The image was hard for the old brain to grasp, so I went with what I saw – a tapestry of color and texture. Glad you enjoyed it, my friend. 😀
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I did, indeed! 🙂
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So lovely!
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So glad you stopped by to read my dabble in poetry, Jill. Have a wonderful week.
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Beautiful!
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Thanks, Richard. 😀 This went back and forth between prose and poetry a few times and landed here when time ran out. Lol. Happy Writing, my friend.
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And you 🙂
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Lovely and evocative! 🙂
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Just what I was about to say 🙂
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Thanks, Nathalie. 😀 The prompt was visually interesting – almost a mosaic of color and texture. I’m glad you liked my attempt to put that in words.
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Thank you, Sebnem. I couldn’t make heads or tails of the image and figured I would put that into words. 😀 Have a great week and Happy Writing.
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