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…
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
You think “If I lived there Would I really still see it? Would I know that it is not Water and dirt But a place where peace and power Ride side by side?” Let me tell you, my old self. The answer is yes. OriginalWorkPacificNorthwestPhotographyPoetryWater
A cento is a literary form, especially a poem, that is made up entirely of quotations from other work. Sort of the original mashup – here’s one of mine. Book Love There is no frigate like a book. I love how books begin; those passages Where the hills are twice as steep, and twice as…
Daffodils are daring. It takes true moxie to plant That hairy, fat-rat bulb Hoping you’ll eventually get Sunny ruffled splendor. Fear not, but be believing. Spring will come. by Jenel Alan OriginalWorkPoetryWriting
“Of Periods of Seas — Unvisited of Shores — Themselves the Verge of Seas to be — Eternity — is Those —” Emily Dickinson Sometimes when you’re not even sure you understand a stanza of poetry, you still understand the stanza of poetry PacificNorthwestPhotographyPoetryReflections
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