Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Tag: Postaday
Photo Friday: Spacious
A full-sized baseball field, makes an unforgettable impression on an exuberant 10 year-old, taking the field for the first time with his team for regional playoffs. Words cannot describe the feeling of pro-field spaciousness, after having played exclusively on local sandlots; and realizing that… Continue Reading “Photo Friday: Spacious”
Villanelle: Maysong
Their song arises to celestial realms bubbling o’er the cliff in coiling curls As hawk’s wings soar and float atop the elms. and top tall branches in the clouds entwined as ring by ring, the puffs of song unfurl Their song arises to celestial… Continue Reading “Villanelle: Maysong”
Clarity
From my bulkhead window seat I smile, I buckle up, take a breath and sigh. This sparkling crystal morn will be imprinted on my ever-wakening mind’s eye… Forever. New paths (i’m told) will spread ahead for me, I gladly (if warily) seize this dawning… Continue Reading “Clarity”
Ecstasy Unleashed
On his crown, the Blenheim spot. His loft: a perch to watch the world go by. Until… “Want to go for a walk?” Dashing to the doorstep, Tail wagging, He welcomes his tether. 🐶🐶🐶 Trifextra Weekend Challenge: This weekend we’re asking for… Continue Reading “Ecstasy Unleashed”
Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV
While most folks were enthralled to walk through the recently opened ‘gate’ to the new FantasyLand and its novel attractions, my camera lens was drawn, instead, upward from the ground to the flag at the top of the dramatic parapet, outlined so brilliantly against… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV”
Beyond The Bubble
Globule jiggling Reflections wriggling Within black-rimmed sphere. Kaleidoscopic shimmer as images glimmer through the bubble. Horizon dipping lower, Rim receding, slower and lower still. Vision quest paced As floaters erased: My eye-view mending. Notes: Beyond The Bubble. Though retina surgery is not something I… Continue Reading “Beyond The Bubble”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea
The Sea, stretching infinitely far below, as far as the eye can see; defining the horizon, where sky and sea merge as one.
Cloudy Conundrum
⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅ Cotton cloud-puffs, or Roiling storm clouds on the boil, Sunbeams or showers? ⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅ Trifextra Weekend Challenge: This weekend’s prompt comes from Hello, Cheney, whose lapse in memory was a happy accident for us. This weekend we’re asking you to harken back to… Continue Reading “Cloudy Conundrum”
Photo Friday: Frozen…Seasons on Ice
It is late August, as I languorously sip my morning coffee on the bedroom porch, noticing the slightly nippy breeze that foretells the fast-approaching end of summer. I ponder how best to respond to this week’s Photo Friday prompt, “FROZEN“, and realize that the… Continue Reading “Photo Friday: Frozen…Seasons on Ice”
Blight or Blessing?
I watch in sadness Helpless, impotent. Unable to shield My shade givers From incessant infestation. None spared; Branch by branch, Tree by tree, They all fall victim To infection. None spared, save one: Radiant, red apple tree Standing strong in southeast corner; Her green… Continue Reading “Blight or Blessing?”
Haiku Friday: Black Crane
Regal, ebon crane Glides through swamp-realm reeds; unseen, Protected from harm. p
Photo Friday: On The Road: “Color me…Blend”
👣👣👣 A Disney World Denizen epitomizes being “On The Road”, as he joins his fellow Chameleons, darting here, there and everywhere, and always blending into the environs, as if by magic. They remind us, amid the excited squeals of the kiddies, that our home… Continue Reading “Photo Friday: On The Road: “Color me…Blend””
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
Home Sweet Home
Opal Reflections 