Color Kindness

[roadrunner3]

Your blues and hues do unconfuse
When life has left me quite bemused
The distant skies release the sighs
That seem to creep when dreaming dies
When hope just seems to fly away
And land in some forsaken place
When all my efforts seem at loss
To clear my vision's dreary dross.
The way is slow but on I go
Encircling to the towering top
And vistas there effect repair
Dissolving inner mental blocks
So no obstructions will deter
The message streaming from the view
The color coded words confer
An epic tome that's always new.

[anirbas]

Oh, my...Oh, my blithering stars!!!!!!

WHAT A GORGEOUS SLICE OF LIFE...

Accompanied by an equally gorgeous poem...

And you used dross!!!! I love that word...dross...

A treat to see you hanging out and banging at the keys with the rest of us...
Curious to know...Did you take the picture, or is that you, working your way
around the mountain, in the picture? Or is it one you found on the internet?
Not the mountain, the picture...LOL...

[roadrunner3]

I wish I had been there, Sabrina! Alas,
it is a picture I found on the internet, but
I do travel there often in my mind!

[roadrunner3]

Breathe on me, Fire Mountain
Cauldron of the Gods
Awaken in me that which
Weaves its way through all time
And space
And connects all of Life.
Let me flow before you
Nourishing even as I am nourished
Transforming even as I am transformed
Assimilating even as I am assimilated.

[glenn]

wow!

some really striking photos and poems here

!!

[roadrunner3]

Thanks Glenn, I have long known that I get a bit
of the winter blues this time of year. My poetry
tank was registering empty until I saw these
photos. I guess I just needed some bright
colors!
RR

[bichsa]

I concur beautiful photos. I was imagining your the one with the bike ,just beautiful words and photos from a beautiful person! well done!Peace!C.

[roadrunner3]

Thanks so much, Cheryl. Metaphorically that IS me
on the bike on a road that would seem to be somewhat
less traveled, but not exactly the straight and narrow,
either. Glad you are enjoying the holidays.
RR3

[DavidMc]

Great combination of words and colour.

David

[roadrunner3]

Thanks, David!

[roadrunner3]

Come, my love, to fortified tower
And shower me
With poetry.
Gaze upon the valley fair
Breathe deeply in the rarefied air
And let us cheat life's dank despair.
If just for a day, or only an hour,
Yet for a lifetime will this bower
Bear memories as sweet as flowers
Where bathed in love's releasing power
Just for a moment
We made time cower.
Entangled in your beauty there
I'll ne'er attempt to slip the snare
But revel in the lovely lair
That held my heart
With heavenly care.

[roadrunner3]

As smooth as glass
As clear as a mirror
I shiver in awe
All my life has brought me to this point
Food, oxygen, activity, rest
Have all sustained tender tissues
So reflection, refraction
Electrochemical reactions
Could feed my soul at this moment.
All I can do
Is humbly bow
And say "Thanks!"

[anirbas]

This thread...Takes the breath away with it's eyepopping visuals...
And, as always, your poems are stunning gems, Runner!
And honor for David and I, to have your imagination on tap, here...

I absolutely adore this piece and it's accompanying picture:

"Come, my love, to fortified tower
And shower me
With poetry.
Gaze upon the valley fair
Breathe deeply in the rarefied air
And let us cheat life's dank despair.
If just for a day, or only an hour,
Yet for a lifetime will this bower
Bear memories as sweet as flowers
Where bathed in love's releasing power
Just for a moment
We made time cower.
Entangled in your beauty there
I'll ne'er attempt to slip the snare
But revel in the lovely lair
That held my heart
With heavenly care."

~Roadrunner.

Thanks for sharing...Got more?

[roadrunner3]

Thanks Sabrina,
I'm having a lot of fun with Color Kindness.

The eye that never closes
Frozen in stone
Always gazing
Grazing on silhouetted sights
That slowly change over thousands of years.
As time slips by
This eye sheds no tears
The days and nights
Accrue into ages
And geological stages
But yet it still gazes
Until the heat and chill
And rain and drought
Bring about a final collapse
Then, in closing its eye,
A well earned nap.

[anirbas]

OH, MY, MY, MY, MY BLITHERING, SHIVERING STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This visual literally took my breath away...Almost fell out of the flight chair
in front of the computer with the raw power of it's beauty...THAT WOULD MAKE
A GRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT POSTER...

And the poem it inspired is a gem, Runner! Thank you for sharing...Got more???

Drat...I have to look at that, again...

[anirbas]

a wall to wall, floor to ceiling poster...yessssssss!

[roadrunner3]

Thanks Sabrina!
A floor to ceiling poster would be neat, it would make
you feel like you could step through the opening
right into the wild blue yonder.
RR

[roadrunner3]

Swirling, floating, drifting on summer breeze
Without a care, but with great potential,
Fresh from a launch provided by a sneeze
Gifting the velocity essential.
Some in disdain will call them common weeds,
These puffballs white that call out to the wind,
But if they knew the power of the seed
Why certainly their judgment they'd suspend.
The progeny that lurk in this one float
Could grow in fields flung far across the earth,
Its journey no less marvel than the mote
That found the egg that ended in your birth.
So when you spy the cotton floating round
Embrace the wind that favor with you found.

[roadrunner3]

I find of late, in quiet times,
With softer step and gentler rhythm,
Miles apart from madding crowd
In introspection I am bidden
To slip the rough protective coat
That useful proved in growing up
But now impedes the tender shoot
That seeks new light on which to sup.
The fingers of your warming smile
Are gentle on my spirit's husk
As slowly opened to the day
My world of drear eternal dusk
Dissolves to find a richer life
And root descends to depths unknown
To anchor there mid ages past
Where sage's paths are wont to roam.
When duly anchored, growth begins,
At first I feel so meek and thin
But bursting from my earthly tomb
My cotyledon now ascends
To heights that give a different view,
A different world, a different read,
Than what I dreamed of in the earth
When I existed as a seed.
I seem forever in the light
And in your smile do fully flower
Leaning down you deign me kiss
As all around my fragrance showers,
On and on this dance sustains
A life I thought would never end
But then one windy day in fall
I find that I begin to bend
And getting lower to the earth
I see where time is going to lead
And so release into the wind
The quintessential gift...a seed.

[anirbas]

This thread explodes with color, beautiful vistas and visuals,
and is chockful of some the most creatively wrought poeming, Runner!!

A real treat for David and I to have you on board...btw...GOT MORE??

[roadrunner3]

Cold steel blue
A shivering, shimmering still-life
Not inviting
But still delighting
And what secrets lurk below the surface?

[anirbas]

I dunno...Perhaps, Nessie?

Yet another breathtaking picture
accompanied by a just right poem, Runner!

Thanks for sharing, our friend! Got more?

This pic also made me think of the quote, "As above, so below", or some such...

~*~

Think this pic, may have inspired a little something something from me...

~*~


Majestic, snow crowned crags
puncture the expanse
of the ever blue heavens...
Soundlessly echoed
in the parallel universe
of fluidic fathoms
spreading away
from the feet
of the mountains...

I want to be there...
Smelling the pure air...
Capturing cupped handfuls
of the water to taste...

And in this moment,
viewing this picture, I am...
But, I didn't risk frostbite
vicariously viewing
this slice of life...

And that's a good thing...

[roadrunner3]

Nessie?!
That's great!
It might look something like this:


I really like your poem, especially the "parallel universe
of fluidic fathoms". That's great! Here's another pic for your
consideration and possible inspiration:

Venus and Jupiter
Children of the Sun
Frolicking in the eastern sky
While a symphony of celestial bodies
Plays their favorite song.

[Sam]

I will dance in celebration
and rejoice in this moment
of calm before the storm...


Sam


* Wonderful thread!

[roadrunner3]

Beautiful poem, Sam!
RR

[anirbas]

Thanks, Runner...
Love the new pic, too!
But, at first I thought
the shoreline was on fire...
ggglgggl...But, I did...
Then realized,
it was the city lights...
And do you know,
is that Venus and Jupiter
so close together in the skies
over our heads, right now?
Noticed two celestial bodies
shining rather brightly
this morning before dawn
lit up the sky...This pic
also reminded me
of that view
I saw this morning,
heading into work...

~*~

Stars scatter
the indigo field
of the heavens
like buckshot...

City lights blaze,
the scrim line
of a wildfire's ire
let loose along
the shoreline...

And I, sitting
alone, on the far
side of it all,
simply sigh
as for this
visual setting
I slip and fall...

[roadrunner3]

Very lovely poem, Nir!
Yes, that is Venus and Jupiter in the morning sky.
Venus is the brighter of the two (women often
outshine the men). Be sure to check it out on
Monday AM because the crescent moon will join
in the dance.
RR

[anirbas]

Thanks, Runner! Good to know that it's Venus and Jupiter...I knew it was planets,
just wasn't sure which two...But, noticed the ones in the visual you provided
looked just like them...So, at least my feebled brain made that connection...LOL...
Got a cackle out of your "women often outshine the men" opinion...Monday has come and gone and I can't remember if I even looked at the sky this morning as I was driving to work...
Good thing, Monday is my Friday...But, I think it was cloudy here this morning...Nir.

[roadrunner3]

You rose Nova-like
As dusk was settling on my life
In the force of your presence, I quaked,
And in the shifting of the tectonic plates
That protected my soul
A deep cavernous loneliness was illuminated
And I was set free.

[dawness]

breathless as the fog
that halts in praise of
landscapes and domains
seized not by space or time
only
unsiezed by the grandeur
that beckons upon the call
of everything that is forever
evermore.

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unique thread about nature, rr3!