The Voice of the Rain

The Voice Of The Rain ~ Walt Whitman

And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same, I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe, And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn; And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it; (For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wander- ing, Reck'd or unreck'd. duly with love returns.) .....

As Walt Whitman was born on this day in 1819, I could not let the day pass without marking it in some way......

And here is to the end of May, a very hectic month, proven by my lack of activity here, but I promise to make amends and remedy that throughout June :)

Delights : Warnings

Strange Delight from Delights:Warnings by Jo Bradford.

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A Woodland Fairy ~ A Poem by Lizzy Tomlinson

Deep inside the woods, at night,
Appeared a fairy, bathed in light,
Her grace was magical to see,
As she tiptoed there, beneath the tree,
Just that one night,
I witnessed the sight,
Of a woodland fairy bathed in light.

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As a child I had a book of collected poems for children and this wonderful poem by Scottish Poet, Lizzy Tomlinson, is one of the poems that I loved so much that I knew it off by heart :)

This long exposure photograph was taken just before sunrise on a cold October morning, Steph T, my model had to try to keep her torso and facial expression totally still, whilst flapping her arms slowly to create the wings...

Spring 'Roid Week 2010

It's 'Roid Week, yippeee!

Today my polaroid picture made the flickr front page of Flickr Explore :)