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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Poems from Outer Banks and Outer Space

  

     Kathabela Wilson    3/31/15 


fly off
to your outer pranks 
April Fool









   

  

     Kathabela Wilson     3/31/15 


eroding shore she carries the house on her bike



    







     Lois P Jones  4/5/15


Bicyclists are known to fly
by on sacred days
when the wind is Wright











       Kathabela Wilson  4/4/15  


the way she sees it 
torn origami 
along the shore








     Kathabela Wilson 4/5/15 


deep sand no road 
so fly or walk on water—
the sheriff's rescue








   

     Junnie Starshine 4/11/15 


Land Erosion
Nature's reaction
to earth's aliveness
and movement

Land Erosion
Lady Journeyer
yellow shirted adventurer
on wheels adorned in red

Such is the perspective
of one perched
upon a glimmering Star
in the ever optimistic sky





   Junnie Starshine  4/14/15 


THERE IT IS! 

The lone bike ~ speaking through it's photographic image 
of hills and valleys, sands and waters
peoples and projects

... implying through it's lean against the tree
that one of curiosity has trusted it to carry her
where she yearns to be

in contemplation, wonders this one here
if such a vehicle has a 'name'
one of appreciation and dignity


 

     Lee Collins  4/14/15 


Here's sea sand that has shaped the world
Here are out banks that split apart the sea
Here huge waves of surf are wildly hurled
In grinding grainy crashing enmity.
I keep posting blogs but they don't stay
they are suddenly washed away





    

     Lois P Jones 4/15/15


She married a geologist for excitement.
Together they pounded ophiolites for enlightenment.
And since then each year
they drink cabernet and read Kabir
and ponder the surfaces of their environment
 





     

     Junnie Starshine 4/18/15 

bicycle in the cafe glow
wide observation within
blog does not bug
photos hide the squish
and vanish the sting







     

Kathabela Wilson  4/18/15


mosquito 
swamp monsters...
she wears purple
and houses martins
on her head







     

Briony James 4/19/15


deep in the shadows
the wildwood breathes
and blinks
in greengold light
poured from above









 

   Sharon Hawley 4/11/15


another stop
at a fast food
old man alone
talk with the past
geology


8 comments:

  1. thank you Sharon for making us a part of your journey. Your writing on this trip has been magnificent. Your poem here and your blog story of him) at the end especially moving. We lost Mel Weisburd today so you can imagine how I feel. All of us joining hearts here is consoling...love and hugs from Kathabela

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  2. I will miss Mel, a great poet and a wonderful man.

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  3. “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
    And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

    ― Walt Whitman

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  4. Thank you, Sharon, for finding the poetry in the comments ... what a lovely verbal tribute to those who relish in the creativity of your travels

    and, too, how complimentary are your photographic canvases that speak softly, like the whispered shadows of the stories conveyed in words

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    1. Junnie, thanks for your many comments along the way and for your poetic contributions.

      "in contemplation, wonders this one here
      if such a vehicle has a 'name'
      one of appreciation and dignity"

      If I ever give it a name, it will be one of appreciation and dignity, as travelers of old gave names to their horses and mules.

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  5. I'm a rock star! Yeah! You bring out my humorous side Sharon. I love all of these collaborations.

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    1. Your hand lens, Lois, finds the mind of a geologist, and a lover of geology, having wine together. Rock on!

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