Using Photographs to Dwell in Poetry

“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds ofMay,And summers lease hath all too short adate.”William Shakespeare CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/peewubblewoo/4685140 963/sizes/l/

“Your absence has gonethrough meLike thread through aneedle.Everything I do isstitched with its color.”“Separation”W.S. Merwin

“Tell me,what is it youplan to dowith your onewild andpreciouslife?”“The Summer Day”Mary Oliver CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/limaoscarjuliet/149 580816/sizes/l/

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary.”“Variation on the Word Sleep” CC image viaMargaret Atwood http://www.flickr.com/photos/bet h19/4627578764/sizes/l/in/faves- 10557450@N04/

“I wheeled with thestars,my heart brokeloose on the wind.”“Poetry”Pablo NerudaCC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/bored-now/2241989981/sizes/l/

“Yesterday someone said, “It gets late so early.” I wrote it down. I was going to do something with it. Maybe it is a title and this life is the poem.” “The Time” Naomi Shihab NyeCC photo viahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/beth19/4721798240/sizes/l/in/faves-10557450@N04/

"Live in the layers,not on the litter."Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the nextchapterin my book oftransformationsis already written.I am not done with mychanges.“The Layers”Stanley Kunitz CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/yives/3392170068/sizes/ o/

“She kissed me again, reaching that placethat sends messages to toes and fingertips,then all the way to something like home.Some music was playing on its own.” “The Kiss” Stephen Dunn

“The world is too much with us; late and soonLittle we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” “The World Is Too Much with Us” William Wordsworth

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what Ive tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.CC image photo via Robert Frost, “Fire and Ice”http://www.flickr.com/photos/furryscalyman/439282859/sizes/l/

“Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird…”“Hold Fast to Dreams”Langston Hughes CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaczmarekvincent/3296 323373/sizes/l/

“Like a diver on alofty spar of landAtop the flight ofstairs I stand.A whirlpool leersat me,I cast off myidentityAnd make the fatalplunge”“Family Reunion” CC image viaSylvia Plath http://www.flickr.com/photos/chic agogear/289294488/sizes/m/

Let it come, as itwill, and dontbe afraid. Goddoes not leave uscomfortless, so letevening come .“Let Evening Come”Jane Kenyon CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/zebrapares/25758 80001/sizes/z/

But little by little,as you left their voicesbehind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper anddeeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do--determined to savethe only life you could save.“The Journey” CC image http://www.flickr.com/photos/vulcho/22490567/sizes/o/Mary Oliver

Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An ancient oak fell in the Cumberlands, holding only a handful of leaves, and an old woman scattering corn to her chickens looked up for an instant. At the other side of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times the size of our own sun exploded and vanished, leaving a small green spot on the astronomers retina as he stood on the great open dome of my heart with no one to tell. “After Years” Ted KooserCC image viahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/djmccrady/4911753691/sizes/o/in/photostream//

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Using Photographs to Dwell in Poetry

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