Photography, art, and poetry joined together at the hipster -- a collaboration between and among Michael Sudheer, Peter Cranton and Mitch Ditkoff.

1. Smiling from Within
Michael Sudheer
Peter Cranton
Mitch Ditkoff

2. The gift I bought for you today is not inside the box.
It’s in the opening.

3. Some might call it dancing. I call it stumbling
closer to God, the unrehearsed falling forward
into love as if the world was tipped.

4. She wanted more space. I gave her the universe.

5. I am a guest in my own house, I am not the owner.

6. Can you throw
away the roses
with the same
love you
proclaimed upon
giving them
to your Beloved
when they were
in full bloom?

7. I am a rosebush,
newly pruned,
my flowers trimmed
for the long haul.

8. We do not make
love,
love is

9. What is this
strange
forgetting that
has taken hold
of me lately –
this being
unable to
remember
that everything
is sacred,
holy and alive?

10. Who can I share
my joy with?
Who can
understand?
My body is the
hourglass, my
breath the precious
sand.

11. If you want to love me,
love your first. If you want to
love yourself first, love me.

12. Disguised as myself, nowhere to go

13. Michael Sudheer Sudheer1@aol.com
Peter Cranton prcranton@att.net
Mitch Ditkoff mitch@ideachampions.com
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