I walk as a stranger in my own land frozen a thin layer of ice covers a season left behind — a surface of frozen sticks separate socially distant from the tree whence they were born life spliced between locked out neither being space nor time just waiting for the thaw. ∞ Submitted as part…
Hurricane’s Descent
Through hurricane’s eye Storms the waterfall below Chutes return to sea. All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Atop.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.
Winter’s Horizon
Icy bed of grass Winter’s silver horizon Life frozen in time.” All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “New Horizon.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.
Alight
Light frozen in ice Dripping winter into spring Divided by night.” All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Half-Light.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.
Frozen Promise
Circle of willow’s fur A heart’s promise caught in ice Spring awaits pussin’ boots. All text and images © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Circle.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.
Tails of Ice
Entranced by the colours of these warm ‘cattails’ … or ‘bull-rushes’ as we called them when I grew up. I still remember vividly the effect my childish hoarding of the fall rushes in my father’s shed had one warm day in spring when they all burst back to life and filled the shed and all…
Frozen in Time
As you can tell by this, the fifth in my series (a series that has lots of legs), I’m totally enthralled by what the Ice Storm did to transform the landscape and all that is in it. From the branches with which I started, to a stem of milk weed, to the branch of a…
Arrested Fruit
The fourth in my series chronicling Ottawa’s 2015 Ice Storm. And, yes, more to come tomorrow….
Frozen Fir
The third in my series chronicling Ottawa’s 2015 Ice Storm. Check back tomorrow for the next installment.
Ice “Rose”
The second in my series chronicling Ottawa’s 2015 Ice Storm. Check back tomorrow for the next installment.