Challenges

poetry 101 rehab: dark

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dark
                                 long night
                        night crawling dark thoughts
                     thoughts spawned dark endless night
                  night terror cracked dark gnarled fingers
                fingers slithering scraping grasping fingers
                  fingers gnarled dark cracked terror night
                     night endless dark spawned thoughts
                        thoughts dark crawling night
                                 night long
                                                                   dark

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – dark)

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at 70mm, ISO200, 1/250s and f/8.0, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, wet plate filter applied, fingers over eyes*

enveloped

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“i was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view”
― haruki murakami, the wind-up bird chronicle
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            enveloped in pain
                             by something that knows
                      no name
                             don't give it house room
            turn up the
                                               volume
            and just
                                                                                          dance

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – enveloped)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-200m f/4 lens at 1/250s and f/8, no edits*

poetry 101 rehab: recycle

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real world in trouble
everyone lives in a bubble
does any one care about the trouble
under so much rubble
can it really be so much trouble
eventually -
real world in trouble
everyone lives in a bubble
under so much rubble
so, are we really in trouble
eventually -
real world in trouble
everyone lives in a bubble
can it really be so much trouble
yes, they will burst our bubble
can it really be so much trouble
look out, I told you, they’re really gonna burst our bubble
eventually -

 

(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – recycle)

*shot with iphone 5, edited in snapseed mobile,  adverbs reduced, reused and recycled*

force(s) of nature

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(advertising hoarding, havenlaan, brüssel)

                     shhh...
                            force(s) of
                                 nature
                                 can
                                 lead
                                 to
                     trouble

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – forces of nature)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300mm lens, at 70mm, and 1/125s at f/5.6, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro, make up optional”

poetry 101 rehab: couple

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couple_poem

(nijverheidskaai, molenbeek)

(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – couple)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300 mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 300mm, 1/320s and f/9, edited in lightroom cc, aperture efex pro 2 with multi lens filter applied, poem added in photoshop cc, no couples were harmed in the making of this post*

intricate (eye)

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                        “the soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye” 
                                                                                                           ― charlotte brontë, jane eyre

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(eye -bar restaurant, ijpromenade 1, amsterdam)

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – intricate)

(also for lucile’s photo101 rehab, with thanks…)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens at 1/250s and f/8, edited in lightroom cc and silver efex pro 2, eye’s left*

intricate on belgianstreets

intricate on belgianstreets

poetry 101 rehab: sugar

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sprinkled

stirred

added

to mask

to obscure

reality harsh bitter life

a cube

a grain

a sprinkle

is that all it takes

to taste

better?

(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – sugar)

motion

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                              she reached out
                                          his fingers stretched
                                                               don't let go
                                                       don't go
                                                  don't

(for wordpress weekly photo challenge – motion and also for lucile’s photo 101 rehab)

*shot with nikon d700, nikkor  85mm f/1.8 lens at  1/60s and f/16, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, motion filter applied, not letting go*

poetry 101 rehab: day

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in the space, of a day

what would you say

all the things, you wanted to say

those things about love and longing, fancies and fears

things about war and want, famines and floods

or, maybe just a few words about the space

the space where she lay

in just the space

of a day

 

(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – day)