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The Blue Night

I look out over the Kanawha River in the evening as old Sol closes his sleepy eyes. The softening light melts into a deep blue leaving an icy chill in it’s wake. The blue night has arrived. Small flickering lights beckon the people of the city to come home for a warm fire and a good meal. The river holds a garden of gnarly empty branches as if a mirror world lies just below the surface. I take one last look at the silhouette of mirror world and begin my own journey home with only the blue night and flickering lights to guide me.

Image was taken in Kanawha County of the Kanawha River and overlooking Kanawha City.

Beneath Dreaming Tree

black and white photography

There is a place in my dreams where a lone tree stands bridging heaven and earth.

As nighttime falls and the land sleeps the clouds come dancing by.

Stars sing in chorus to the nightbird’s lonely cry.

A maiden enters my dreams. Her green eyes pierce the night and she takes my hand.

Rise up you sleeper she whispers softly.

This dream is short and our time has come.

Our thoughts and hearts are one.

But all too soon will come the dawn.

And our dreamworld will too soon be gone.

For sunbeams shatter dreams and the life that will be.

We loved and laughed with warm embrace beneath that single tree.

Til golden light erased the night and stole my dreams from me.

Beneath the sun I toil, the dream still in my head.

With hopes that my dream returns to me, when tonight I go to bed.

Escaping From Winter

Color Photography, Thoughts and Musing

Free me from this frozen prison!

Loose theses bindings layers of wool and down.

Let me feel the warmth of the Sun in place of icy winds.

Show me green leaves and let me breathe in the scent of rose.

Kindle a fire deep in my soul and set this prisoner free.

The Seeker

Color Photography, Thoughts and Musing

I stood in a spot between the land and the sea.

I stood there between youth and maturity.

Alone in the crowd.

I called out and the waves answered; answered with your name.

I spent an eternity in a single moment.

I feared.

I despaired.

I reached out with my hands and caught only the wind.

Between the dark and the dawn I stood there.

I waited.

I hoped.

I reached out with my heart found that you were already here.

Waiting to be found once again.

Entwined

Back and White Photography, Thoughts and Musing

We grow as one.

We live as one.

We strive together ever upwards.

I will carry you to the sky, you will keep me rooted in the earth.

We are more than friends.

We are more than lovers.

We are one life, one path, one determination.

We are entwined.