This week’s Photography Challenge was Delta – focusing on transition, change, and the passage of time. I could have gone through all of my folders upon folders of photographs – and any one image could have been relevant, but I decided to stay closer to home and use photos taken yesterday from our time at the gardens.
Photography has opened my eyes, perhaps just a little. I have found so many times the parallels between what I see in nature and what I feel within myself. This post and poem below were inspired by the following two images. Both are from the same exact plant. Both are in various forms of transformation and beauty. Much like us, they never look the same from one moment to the next.
Life is a transition
from one moment to the next
we are changed and changing
both blossom and bloom.
It matters not,
that we don’t see it
that we still feel
the slow passage of time
and the same face
that stares at us
seems like the same face
we have seen before.
We are moved, and moving
like waves upon the shore
pulling at bits of sand and seashells
rushing forward then begging retreat
only to find ourselves moved again.
It is not without consequence
this fertile rushing forth and back
the changing aims and desires
the scars that leave us unblemished –
we change, you and I
and given any moment
when a picture is snapped
we shall never look the same.
(c) Sumyanna 2017
Photography and Poem submitted for The Daily Post Prompt: Delta
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Lovely imagery and stunning photos 😊
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Gorgeous photos and poem!
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Thank you very much sweet pea 🙂
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You’re very welcome 🙂
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The second photo is almost heart shaped 💕
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I did not notice that, but you’re right 🙂 Ahhhh, love and flowers!
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Beautiful captures an lovely poem.
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Thank you very much. The name of your blog is simply lovely!
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Thank you!
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