Anne Worner “Don’t Fall In” CC BY 2.0 ~ flickr.com
Squares…
arrow where we meet
committed the following
wing-clipped
it’s fatal
at all the sizes
as we step in footstep
ape-creatures
chores, our day’s eye
design filled with
ease – sometimes white
bright – you look back
ache, hurt to be one
unapproved – switch
itch/inch to black
echoing squares…
Read more at: Photo Challenge at Mindloveisery's Menagerie
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This is fabulous and surreal at the same time. Often when I am place such as a terminal I feel a sense of unreality despite the fact it is positively seething with normality. Terminals always make you think of transitions, a kind of purgatory if you like. There is something dangerous and unsettling about them
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Hi Yves, I know this feeling about the terminals...From my experience I could say: to help with transition we need a little note, the token of past, the letter from the past, our fave music with us....Also for the transition to go smooth, we need be prepared (plan, steps)..please, email me at my igolembo@gmail.com and we can talk more. Thanks for visiting my another blog...written 4 years ago, it needs my attention for sure now... smiles..
DeleteThe sure take you here and there as the ape creatures blindly go on their way lol
ReplyDeleteBetter to go, than stay at one place and cow...lol
Deletethanks for sharing your interesting response to the photo challenge as well as incorporating the circular poem challenge too :)
ReplyDeleteinteresting ideas ... I like the notion of the arrows where the meeting happens ... within the square ... all directions pointing etc.
Cheers ~ Pat
Glad you like it...very often the design around us direct to next thought, step and the solution to our everyday lives. Thank you, Pat!
DeleteHey, Humbird! All your links lead back to you! I was trying to check out the photo challenge, but couldn't, and then you might link to Poets United too. This poem is as complex as the photo! How amazing to see yourself reflected below, or is it above? Sure can give the head a metaphysical spin. I thought of Chess, and how the Bishops are either on the white or black and cannot change their diagonals. And I also thought of the trajectory of our lives and social isms ... how I wish that--though we incorporate the past--rejection would not determine our present.
ReplyDeleteSusan, just have checked the links - they're working. About two sides, white and black...they are the two sides of whole....we still need to learn to feel it....mho ~ thanks for discussion and theme!
DeleteSuch a powerful response to the prompt :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Sanaa!
DeleteA very interesting take on the prompt :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it...thank you.
DeletePresumably the dark hollow section is dark so it reflects the underside of the arched roof on the floor; so your 'echoing' is the alternative word to reflecting.
ReplyDeleteLight, reflection, perception, ...echoing never the same with original and in same time - a part of it, if we accept it...thanks
ReplyDelete"you look back / ache" this is absolutely necessary to get the cue to move on further...i like the play of black and white, a design of almost every life...nicely done as always...
ReplyDeleteBrilliant...It is the mingled opposites which makes life more realistic and more intoxicating. We exist in terms of this black n white conflict, we need to remember that!Beautifully done!
ReplyDeleteThere is a wonderful pattern in the rhythm of this poem which slots together easily as squares..how very important it is which square we land on - light or dark
ReplyDeleteThe key - how we label our condition, state of mind; how fast we move on...redirect ourselves..to positive next thing...ths
DeleteReally enjoyed your reflection, Humbird.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for inspiring comments/reactions/thoughts!
ReplyDeleteInteresting ekphrastik here. Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteAn interesting interpretation of the intriguing photo, humbird.
ReplyDeleteI love squares, black and white, white and black....
ReplyDeleteThis interesting, regardless how bright eyed one awakens, in reality there are the stumbling blocks to deal with
ReplyDeletenice write
much love...
loved the design of your poem. it is a fresh way to express your thoughts Humbird. remarkable.
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