Best Ansel Poems

...Shadows of light and darkness
Contrasting images of El Capitan
Half Dome sliced by an ice age glacier

I met him that day in Yosemite
Touched by the unique qualities of his photos
F......

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...Moonrise at the end of an infinite desert highway,
Whispering to you while a delicate evening sighs,
Or, peering out from behind mighty obsidian anvils,
She delights and surprises in immensity, an......

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...What unforeseen force determines our course
On journeys throughout our days? 
What drives the notions to cross deep oceans
That for some, become early graves?  

What causes our dreams that move us i......

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...Wet branches bare and black as night,
iced with snow, so pure and white,
contrast stark burned in my sight,
a snapshot stored with cold delight.

The lack of color, so complete,
the beauty made......

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...A unique vision through the camera lens,
Portraits of nature in black and white.
Letting the beauty of contrast speak.

The California Coastline, the Sierras, 
The Southwest..all in the starkest......

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...In Response to Carolyn Devonshire

Artist Ansel Adams and a Deceased War Veteran Widow

Beautiful things begin by being black and white
So you can start off and get things right
Saving a place ......

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...It felt like home
with a slight 
taste of loneliness
while the tv was on,
and you laughed
saying it watches you.....
and here we are once more
looking at the deer
out the bedroom window
our ......

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...Photograph ~ Snake River ~ Ansel Adams

a
river
wends its way
through harsh terrain -
your landscape is college, dating, career
you feel lost, so I encourage you that
rivers ......

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...An eternal source of pain you always cause my heart to break

Never ending warmth that glows from your heart 

Stressed till you give me a  head ache

Ever together never apart 

Love that kn......

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...I am wondrous!
A sane person thinks me mad.
Ha!  But then again, the insane
will think I am sane.
I have fooled all of them.
I have even fooled myself.

Which is not easy.
Considering I am so......

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...And I guess you could have called it,
a Larry Burrows kind of day, with its 
grey-white, soft light, grainy Tri-X sky  

while the V.C. and the grunts, continued
hard at play; and some were dead......

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..."When words become unclear I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate I shall be content with silence." 
- Ansel Adams. 


A photograph with you in collage I found in ......

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...Hot like chocolate lave cake right out of the oven

Beautiful like the mesmerising sight of the sunset meeting the sunrise
 
Tender like a bird building a nest to protect her baby eggs against ba......

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...[A cuppa with mademoiselle Fana Tesfagiorgis] 

I had just driven my ageless self into the Kaufmanns’ 1936–1939 
Frank Lloyd Wright-constructed Pennsylvania getaway:Falling Water Mansion– 
In a 1......

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...Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope

Horrid tin on wet paper. Coastal fragments of an empire twilight. Nonsense to corners in a deck along the warped cabin. Would you be silent for a moment? Afraid it ......

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