Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Category: Postaday
Haiku Friday: The Beach at Claypool
Ever shifting skies Like water-color brush strokes Tinting glist’ning shores.
Dona Nobis Pacem
🌾🌾🌾 🌾🌾🌾 Whitman, Poet penning poems: War poems Williams, Composer setting words to music: Dona Nobis Pacem. Artistic genius, both united inevitably in performance. I sing through tears, their requiem for fallen Father and Son. 🌾🌾🌾 Trifecta Challenge Week 75: a thirty-three word “free-write”… Continue Reading “Dona Nobis Pacem”
Emergence
Cloyingly clinging to a single shred of salvation Resisting the impulse to relinquish my tenuous hold on reality Undaunted, crude, I struggle – as a projectile – against the swirling maelstrom … Continue Reading “Emergence”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves: Marauding Munchkins
Curves are everywhere, including the newly-polished stainless steel refeigerator door; whose smooth, sleek, textured lines are often interrupted by evidence of marauding munchkins (aka Grandsons)!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting
This fleeting moment, captured so beautifully by my daughter, tells us of the pure simplicity of the love a boy has for his dog. This fleeting moment cannot be staged and will never be repeated in exactly this way. But my daughter caught it,… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting”
Weekly Photo Challenge: “The Sign Says…”
As we traveled through Provence during the Spring of 2012, we spent a few days at the hilltop, medieval village of Eze. While leisurely exploring the hilly cobblestone alleys and promenades, we soaked in the Mediterranean sun and saturated colors; a spectacular backdrop for… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: “The Sign Says…””
Weekly Photo Challenge: In The Background
This photo was taken in our Paris hotel room on May 1, 2012. Initially, I was drawn to the ultra modern window wall, with striking geometric sweep and simpatico materials of construction, creating dramatic contrasting and coordinating shades and shadows. One could return to… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: In The Background”
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above
From above, many otherwise unnoticeable or unremarkable images are transformed into unusual and unparalleled works of art. Whether Nature’s mastery or human creativity, opportunities abound to capture the mystery. This gallery was photographed using a Pentax K30, an iPad2, or an iPhone 4S. Usually… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above”
Second Chances
We’d been lost for years, Searching for a sign that things might change. At each juncture, We chose our path together Trusting that our charge into the new century, Would alter The trajectory of our lives. ************************************************************************** This was written in response to Trifextra… Continue Reading “Second Chances”
Back to Basics
In response to the “… next best thing since sliced bread …” challenge, I researched the “sliced bread” phenomenon, the inventor of the sliced bread machine, [Otto Frederick Rohwedder, from Davenport, Iowa, invented the Rohwedder Bread Slicer, in 1912] and the inevitable (but necessary)… Continue Reading “Back to Basics”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Illuminations
After a lovely dinner at a brasserie in Place Victor Hugo, we strolled back to Place de l’Etoile, en route back to our hotel on Avenue Wagram. After having photographed the always breathtaking l’Arc de Triomphe, with lights from La Tour Eiffel in the… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Illuminations”
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
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