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hidden by the bright

filtered light is still quite bright
and even more revealing

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, bright, clouds, diffuse, hide, shadows, sunlight

States of Matter

The Freezing comes and goes

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, freezing, global warming, seasons

Dualiquous

His, the warmest cold

#haiku, #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, #tanka, denial, duality, struggle

too far from here

bear the arid flatness

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, Death Valley

hope’s folly?

HopeAlwaysLooksUp ~Inexplicably.~ ColdThinAirLacks what is neededto Sustain. ~Nevertheless~ There is further fromHere andthatmuchclosertotheSun. HOPE ~ PIC AND A WORD CHALLENGE … More

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, contentment

cold ghosts

Where are you? The time-lapsed blur teases your location.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, blur, cold, ghost, heat, reality, time exposure

interphase

undivided. improbable. preposterous.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, rest, wholeness

never enough

straight from the Tempter’s oven

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, balance, bread, diet, variety

opening?

friendly, yet foreboding.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

mocked by numbers

Build Me! Your unseeing eye squints in condescension

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, architecture, math, shame, Words, writing

It’s Coming.

into her cavernous gullet everything goes.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, fear

whistling in the graveyard

flesh-stripped scaffolding sharply buttress a new kind of body.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, breathing, cemetery, graveyard, superstition

the portal

many ways from here to there.

#choices, #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

rosette

high above us, the eye of pigmented silica emits diffuse light.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords

Depth of Field

But look at the blur ~ beyond the focused flower.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, balance, depth of field, focus

Flesh on Bone

Stones/Bones/Lifeless Zones

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, bone, brown, green, joshua tree, Life, muscle, stone, strong, wasteland

Wayfarer

Wayfaring sounds romantic, but wander too long, you may get lost.

#picandawordchallenge, #poetry, found, lost, redemption, vagabond, wander, wasteland, wayfarer, wayfaring stranger

breakwater

a secure shelter in time of storm

#picandawordchallenge, boat, breakwater, navigate, risk, safety, storm, transition

false flight

memories of freedom won’t fly anymore

#freedom, #picandawordchallenge, #poetry, fly, Freedom, glass ceiling, illusion

Hevel

sometimes poetry requires digging.

#picandawordchallenge, easy, ecclesiastes, hard, nothing new under the sun, Poetry, think, work

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