Caught within a snow globe from dusted dream I awoke liquid paint, an illuminated saint leech the Pleiades, cut the light to bleed Caught within a snow globe broken feathers fill the air Caught within a snow globe wielded hypothesizes, empty promises cracking open firmament’s marrow sunrise, an insectarium, butterflies Caught within a snow globe…
Luminescence Sent
Colours pool in solitude – painted – brushes weather washes away – watery – reflections swallowing whole swatches – summer – swirls autumn awe solemn bare – cracking – crumbling diving down a mermaid den – sultan’s – glen rouge rapt on smitten cheeks – reeds – rise a peacock peeks – revenant – revivalent…
Reflected Magic
Melt the rainbow in a pot of gold Mold the molten into magic Tear the sunshine from the rain Polish me a jelly-bean into jewel Consume the world in a blink Send my wife tulips for today Bend the bouquet into illusion And cast your beauty upon its mirrors.” All text and photography © Dale…
A Changing Shield
I stand upon a shield – worn – hard My Canadian skin – pink – alive Lying beneath the sun – radiating – warm Picnics countertop – shining – smoothed By glacial time – frozen – cracked Fissures map the mantle – quartz – mirrors Catching autumn light – colours – captive Rose rock rolls…
Our World’s Slow Change
We walk the trails side by side Smell the moisture slip from leaves Our love grows strong hand in hand. The light dips behind the trees A steely equinox catches the sun Turns the season upon the earth. Veins pull blood from extremities Suck it back into the trunks Life girds itself for winter’s bite….
Cast Away
An ocean licks my body Smooths my skin in sanded waves I am cast away precious. All text and images © Dale Schierbeck More photos from EatsWritesShoots here.
A Study in Seaweed
Sea flowers caught on land Woven tendrils drink the sun Colours sweep the sand. All text and images © Dale Schierbeck More photos from EatsWritesShoots here.
The Blur of Spring
Depending on where you live, you may well be suffering through the same seasonal blur as we are in Ottawa this year. Our winter this year has been unusually long and cold. Indeed there is still ice on our Rideau Canal (a UNESCO World Heritage Site — not because it has ice into the second…
Wall of Light and Colour …
Walls can be constructed of almost anything and in their construction they are a way and an end. Between two neighbours, they are a boundary. Set low, they create pathways. Built high, strewn with razor wire, they are borders between ideology. Built beneath, they project edifices into the sky and remind us of our power….
A Study in Yellow ~ No. 2: Bonfire
“A Study in Yellow #2: Bonfire” Your tresses fly in the night Caught in wind They warm me tight Touch my skin Yellow burns to white. All text and images © Dale Schierbeck See more of others submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Yellow.”