Best Photographs Poems

Opening the dusty leather bound album
Lots of memories come flooding back
Dad had a lot more hair back then!

Proud parents when our son was born
How he’s grown into a delightful young man
Outings to the park with his little friends
Turning the pages I start to get quite...

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With my brightened lens, I watch you
mystically zooming in     zooming out,
and my eyes focus on the shutter where
 a hundred gulls flap in brief moments: carefully, 
I seize the image, almost lost  in transition 
 as my rushed  stanzas...

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Fading photographs are strewn across alabaster tabletops,  
drenched in moonlight streaming through rustling curtains.  
Snow owls call out to each other through the whistling wind,  
as flakes of snow dust 
frostbit grass outside crystallized windows.  
A roaring fireplace crackles in the...

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 I’m tracing memories in fading photographs,  
    oblivious to the storms that sepia frames clasp,  
questioning pixelated sparks, will ink ever release~ 
a timeless sunrise that no rain can erase?  
    Or am I just...

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"Old photographs have something that is beautiful
and timeless, like works of art."

                                ...

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Photographs share his long and changing journey.
Youth one day moves to the bearded grey.
Smiles of playful days captured for an eternity in black and white.
He grows from fat to thin and back again, colors of his hair blond one year and silky brown the next.
A...

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Some poems are poured
when a poet loses someone,
so those who cannot write,
feel words mirroring their souls.

Since the betrayal of your blind vision,
I've been roaming in realms of broken reflections.
In your aquarium existence,
I've let my emotions sink to the bottom.
Remember, when I was your first thought,
a...

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One by one, with trembling heart,
I pull out faded memories.
Dust off the years that have no part,
of what's left of you and me,
saying goodbye while crying softly.



For the contest Five Lines Down
Sponsored by Brian Strand
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Mornings blushed in dew
replicating your jubilant smile,
love-ladened cupcakes in pink
flavored by your honey-dipped fingers,
fragrance of your jasmine-clad hair
swaying along every time you danced,
exchanging exclusive looks in public
to laugh at shared secrets with coffee,
strumming broken strings of your guitar
when we collided against the window,
rambling vintage songs...

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Above: Wystan in fancy dress
as a beetle -1912


Photographs of Wystan

One of the world's
greatest poets
in a pose, similar
to an Anne Gedde's baby
 
Balancing beetle antennae
his head at an angle
a satin suit padded to
emulate the chest
of  a beetle's,
Spare legs of black velvet
dangling while
he stands upright
feet together,...

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how memories mellow with time
nostalgia falls upon us all
days of youth awake from dreamy nights
warm feelings turn images to treasure 

silent witnesses capturing still moments
creating a collage of mismatched flashes
a life holier than swiss cheese
yet still paints a wistful portrait



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book...

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My older photo books sit on the bottom shelf.
Sometimes I dust them off and look at every page.
Revisiting the past through faded Polaroids
reminds me of the changes wrought by time and age.

I gaze upon the faces of my school-day friends,
three siblings, cousins, and myself. Our...

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beneath the gnarled b r a n c h e s,
             a photo rests within my clutch.
         time d
      ...

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Past to present flashes,
priceless pages of life
physically twining
perpetual moments:
personalities smiles,
passing squirms! Jumps! Cries! Clicks!
Portrait heirlooms of LOVE...
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November 11, 2015...

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Luke got hold of a camera
 And went on a picture taking spree
 He took a picture of his baby brother
 He took a picture of me
  
He took a picture of his nan
 He took a picture of his mum
 He even took...

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