polar bear up north
posing for the camera
dressed for warmth in fur
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Why do someone kisses each other
Closes their eyes?
It's because the eyes not really see
It's the mind that really see
The good moments that register.
The mind is like a camera
Only those beautiful experiences
Are meant to be recorded and film.
When the time of dull and remembrance,
Someone able to recall and see those moments,
The past behind and ponder each unforgettable
Best encounter that you have in your life.
Whether love or life experiences is part of story.
Everyone has etches of making a history,
Whether simple, complex and riddle script,
This is life itself that we can never forget
For the rest of our life whether here or never.
The canvas is so much like a seashore
Where hands comb for a body to the storm
Sometimes a continental piece will shift
These wounds under the palette —
Give her light while looking through the bars
From some more than thousand marks
The brush of close kissing hair by
The stroke of your blue in brown eyes
Stay familiar this very last year
With painted on tears —
The paints dispensed in the water pass
God, forgive the glass.
A tide that leaves colors to our flashback's wind —
My true colors are yours to see within
I have never tasted your full lips,
which lack a moisturizing tip.
Yet, I somehow feel as if I have.
I watched you break that fresh loaf of bread, and you said to me,
“You are welcome.”
Somehow, I could have tasted
and smelled the freshness of that small piece you offered.
I felt nourished.
Your spearing eyes, your youthful appearances
A love like ours will be forever,
My soul is in Accra.
Prism
kaleidoscopic, geometric
bending, reflecting, dispersing
polyhedron, crystal, imagery, looking glass
redeeming, glowing, modeling
confident, consequential
Mirror
Freeze Frame is a part of the game,
When your running life’s great test.
When you take stock you gotta learn to rock,
You’ll be rolling with the best.
Life is just a movie film and your the star of the screen,
It’ll take you to the places where the glitters never seen.
The camera rolls and the lights are bright.
You try to look your best,
But as life goes on the lights go dim,
Do you think you pass the test.
Life is just a movie film and your the star of the screen,
It’ll take you to the places where the glitters never seen.
You got your name in lights, but you had to fight,
But you always did your best,
The stage doors closed and it’s time to go,
But you stood out from the rest.
Life is just a movie film and your the star of the screen,
It’ll take you to the places where the glitters never seen.
The make up slips and the hair goes thin,
You still try to look your best,
Your an old man now and you’ve seen it all,
You’ve given life your best.
Now the credits run and your time is done,
You’ve finished life’s great test,
The screen goes black, there’s no looking back.
It’s time for you to rest.
Sweat drips backstage, mouth parched, heart beating at a sprinter's pace.
All eyes on me, as lights dim with spotlight honing on mic and lips.
Words flow to a standing ovation - I soak it all in.
One of the highlights for me in 2023 was performing spoken word for the first time on stage in front of a packed auditorium. It was a memorable experience and probably the greatest in my creative pursuits.
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In all uv lights
save
The Moon's
her cinnamon tresses
the longest halo
mine ever
known
Hern pretty lays
'Gainst the stone
affixed it's cold
hern gem
glisters
Her mitt's painted digits
claw
Feet lift
the nymph's
torso tall
Visage flat
the castle's wall
her
hot
breath
crystalline
her wink
(((Click)))
who gets the credit for the lightbulb, Dad?
Dad scoffs, easiest question he has ever had
That is Edison son, Thomas was his first name
Ask me again, and I’ll tell you the same
What about the motion picture camera, who invented it?
Dad is bamboozled now, but determined to not throw a fit.
His wife? He guesses, making his wife smile in her cutest way.
Edison dad! yells the child, who runs out to play.
Impressions once taken
by lens, eye and mind
captured now beyond time.
Pictures of friends and lovers
show death and life in the same face.
The camera lays the future bare,
a future often unrecognized.
Vision-shock awaits its appointed hour.
Without that shuttering witness
familiar faces
would fade away in a box of light
without you.
on a tripod by the window be my...
camera
with a telescopic lens aimed at bird...
feeders
over the garage door such that the...
chipmunks
can only get bird feed grounded by...
birds
that are very messy eaters such as...
woodpeckers
and the finches sparrows warblers...
chickadees
and rarely a crow will try the suet for a...
moment
it's being about pileated woodpecker...
size
stans sand
My gallery of timeless treasure!!!
Keeping some memories frozen in time,
Photos can make the moments alive,
Connecting us to our past in seconds,
Some bonds close to heart and some fragile...
Pictures create a button of pause,
We stop and think for the cause,
They make us happy, sad, nostalgic,
We experience the time spent before...
Photographs are a timeless treasure,
I love to get clicked and clicking is my passion,
Be it food, beauty, beech or mountains,
I keep capturing the deeds of compassion...
Images bring back the tornado of emotions,
Instantly remembering the picture's location,
Giving the vignettes of encounters & events
Still objects come into motion...
Bringing out the best and worst of life,
Evocation from our first date to becoming your wife,
Festivals, weddings, birthdays or anniversaries,
Family come close to each other as a tribe...
Camera can be one's best critic,
Catches the meanest and the philanthropic,
Photos are evidences of the happenings,
Even when the eyes can't be juristic...
Written by~
Rashmi Kaushik
#MyDynamicEmotions
They once knocked on my door,
And I have still kept them with me,
Not only those fond memories,
But also the unhappy memories
Of the days spent up in the blues
And the days spent with flawless people
Time cannot steal the treasures
That we carry in our hearts,
Tempting laughs shared in the car,
Special moments captured
In the flash of camera
Have me reminiscing the days
So I have kept them with me
flicker ...
flame up high ...
now ... die
A funny thing happened on my way to work
Was stopped by a down and out man
Asked if I could spare a ten bucks for a coffee
Ten bucks could buy a whole damn can!
Said he didn't want to keep on bugging me
Every day when we met on the street
Thought ten bucks would keep him in coffee
For two or possibly three weeks!
Suspected this coffee he was talking about
Wasn't your average brew
His breath was enough to knock down a rhino
It was extraordinarily potent, p-eew!
Well lo and behold saw a dude with a camera
Filming the whole damn scene
Turned out this down and out beggar guy
Was a plant from Candid Camera it seems!
Was just about to give him the finger
Good thing they told me in time
Would have seen my mug on national TV
Giving him that very rude sign!
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