Poetry in Stream

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I just had this crazy idea that I thought would be really cool (inspirational) and I am kind of new to flickr so I am not sure if this already exists, however... I know that photography is not the only passion people share on flickr and I got a cool idea while viewing the photostream of Copperrein's and coming across a series of pictures from paranoid
www.flickr.com/photos/copperrein/2450738306/
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day one of quiting smoking. (I hope you don't mind me stemming off of your work). I just thought it would be cool if we took pictures to go with poetry. If anyone is interested I am curious if this will be something cool or not.

Week 2 Poem

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rossmat5msu is a group administrator rossmat5msu Pro User says:

Hopefully we can slowly gain more enthusiasm for th group,. This next week's poem is below:



To Walk by the Evening Sea

He wades through the inconstant sands
And late summer’s empty cups and wrappers
On the path to the sundering sea
While overhead the gulls cry farewell to the light.
The night wind glides across the water
To twist its teasing fingers in his hair,
Blanched silks, once red-golden
As the drowning sun.
He stares into the sea with washed gray-pebble eyes
And scans the breakers which roll and tumble stones
And bits of shell to water-covered lucency.
“Tell me,” he says,
And the sea rushes in as if to smother him
In her thousand-armed embrace
And does not answer
But retreats
To keep her counsel in her saline heart,
Her secrets locked deep inside a body of green glass,
And each restless night she lies waiting for him
Whispering his name.

Taken from _Elementa_2008
Faith Goble

Next week we will try something new where We will have a topic and then take a photo and write one stanza. At the end of the week I will arrange them all into one collage or cool project to share with everyone. Thanks to all of you for being patient while I finish my thesis , my time is quite limited on flickr.

-Take care and have a great week.