Posted in response to Sylvain Landry’s photo challenge, theme of Selfie
Photography /Poetry /Humour
“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor” Michael J. Fox
Dark Glasses
Can’t stand the flashes
Oh paparazzi be cursed
Because,
I am forced
To wear these dark glasses
Before,
My fifteen minutes of fame
Passes
Posted in response to Sylvain Landry’s photo challenge, theme of Selfie
Photography /Poetry /Humour
“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor” Michael J. Fox
Rear-view Mirror
Trying to act casual
Trying to act cool
After all,
There is nothing unusual
And nothing, like a fool
Than, in the middle of traffic
Stopping midway
For a quick snap it
After all
This is what all
Self conscious hip people
Do these days!
So snap, snap, snap away
A selfie in progress
Posted in Birthday Celebration, Irony, Humour
“All right, it’s worked so far, but we’re not out yet” Dr McCoy, Star Trek
A Code to Joy or 2016 06 27 51
Ciphered code:
2016 06 27 51
A lottery number?
You may have won!
No, not in this mode
Just fall back to slumber
Nothing too cryptic
Nothing remotely close to apocalyptic
But, a date of some importance
At least for where I take my stance
Today, turning fifty one
Feeling, like a phaser on stun
Pardon the Star Trek pun
Being La Gun, is still lots of fun
So:
Happy Birthday to me-ee!
Posted in Mundane Monday #61
Photography /Poetry
Mundane Monday
“I now find magic in the mundane. I’m also more creative – better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles” Deborah Norville
Falsified Self-image
The shadow reflected
Not what I expected
Feeling disconnected
Somehow misrepresented
It has to be rejected
And quickly corrected
My true self resurrected
This image perfected
Posted in Photography 101: Composition/Light (Weekends 1-2)
Photography, Poetry, Humour
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” Eudora Welty
Compose
Strike a pose
Then compose
Take a dose
Of the photographic
Choreographic
After done
Hit the traffic
Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography
“I don’t want it good. I want it Tuesday” Jack Warner
Five
Monochromic
With an Instamatic
Automatic
Result of, aesthetic
Writing 101, A Poem A Day: Day 9: Camouflage
Poetry & Photography
“Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we conceal.” — Russell Lynes
For today’s poem, take inspiration from camouflage — you may apply it in any way you like, whether you write about visual or social dissimulation, or focus on the way we hide our myriad emotions, actions, and reactions. What would be your ultimate smokescreen, concealment, or mask?
“I need camouflage that works in such a way that when I wear it, you disappear.” Jarod Kintz
Camouflage
I need a good disguise
I really need to hide
From the prying eyes
So very hard I tried
To fit in the system
Trying each position
But now the resistance
Almost my mission
Is to get away
To disappear
I know it’s a cliche
I am facing
The final frontier
My heart racing
I am finally fading
My shell visible
Slowly trading
Becoming invisible
My camouflage
Now complete
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Eye Spy
We’ve got our eye on your photos this week. (See what we did there?)
“Hey, I can see you, and me, and you, and… oh, I like this!” Kelly Robinson
Eye Spy
I spy
Behind my protected eye
A man from Shanghai
With a really nice tie
Passing me by
Eating an apple pie
Waving goodbye
As, in a hurry to buy
A ticket to fly
Away to Mumbai
In honour of the month of November
Photography and Poetry
&
Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise” George Washington Carver
Just Another Fabulous Sunrise, Part One
Just another ordinary weekday?
No, it’s a fabulous sunrise day!
The gorgeous rising sun
What could be more fun
Lifting spirits up high
Almost feels like I could fly
What more could be expected
The good spirits soon deflected
For no reason
In this season
People are smiling again
Poetry and Photography
Posted in week #13 of Camera Lucida Photo Challenge, Reflections
“It’s always interesting to look at reflections…are they really the same as the reality?
How many times did you look at your own reflection and wondered if that’s how the world sees you…?”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face”
William Makepeace Thackeray
Camera Lucida: Reflections
Glass, wood, concrete
How this scene to complete?
Add a dash of colour
Maybe a selfie to follow?
Through the looking glass
Time slowly will pass
The observer’s delight
Is the turning of the light
Scenery, water, skies
Even a high rise
At this altitude
The surprise is an absolute
Rantings Of A Third Kind 