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Fall Haiku
A haiku in honor of the first day of autumn: Pumpkin leaves, crisp air,Cozy, yes, but I will missSalt water summer. -Jenel Alan OriginalWorkPacificNorthwestPoetryWater
“Tree” is Not Enough
The breeze breathes life,Flicker and swayTo my arboreal neighbors.My gaze makes them art,Wonder.They tell me to chill,Wonder. Green is not enough. Tree is not enough.My friends deserve a language wholeTo explain one liberated leafDancing gold and dark along the road. -Jenel Alan OriginalWorkPacificNorthwestPhotographyPoetryTrees
Saturated
Sticky mist.Water hangs and hidesIn a fern curl,On a fence rail,Around the muddy cuff where the trail wentBoggy,Pools and crashesIn a tease through the treesOf the end and Beginning of the world. -Jenel Alan OriginalWorkPacificNorthwestPhotographyPoetryWater
Driftwood
There’s so much metaphor and poetry in driftwood – something that fell or was torn down, gets tossed around in the sea, damaged and deformed, and then is dumped on an unexpected shore – and yet is absolutely beautiful. OriginalWorkPacificNorthwestPhotography
Limitations?
Earlier this summer my brother and sister-in-law came to visit. They wanted to hike down to this beach – and I wasn’t quite up to it for several reasons. So I chose to stay behind at the overlook while they, and my husband, went down to the beach. This could have been disappointing to me…
Time in the trees
I take lots of pictures of trees. It’s one of my favorite parts about living in the Pacific Northwest. Trees also have a good reputation in literature – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Giving Tree, “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer – plus the paper in my books comes from trees. So being a book lover…
“And Yet I Think My Love as Rare…”
Wrote this a few years ago on my first fall visit to the Pacific Northwest Coast. Now that I live here I’m even more aware that this part of the world can be beautiful any time of year. Now, if we can just get these fires and smoke to calm down…. “And Yet I Think…
Waves and wonder
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Hoh
Verdant moss mounds Even on the phone booth. The numinous cathedral of trees. Dripping, draping, vines. A different planet from my Customary desert of Concrete. Life, in any color you want it, As long as it’s green. PacificNorthwestPhotographyPoetry
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