Monday 31 May 2010

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 :)

Friday 14 May 2010

Delights : Warnings



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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...



Tuesday 4 May 2010

Spring 'Roid Week 2010


It's 'Roid Week, yippeee!
Today my polaroid picture made the flickr front page of Flickr Explore :)


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