A leaf beckons – alive, florescent,
in a rainbow of colors, a prism of light
refracted, bent, cast across
a stained garage floor. It greets my eye
at just the moment it needs to happen,
the short span of time when the sun’s rays
penetrate the door at an angle to strike
the white reflector on a bicycle’s front wheel.
Oh leaf, oh leaf, oh leaf! Oh life!
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Cool shot uncle. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWe like to say, when one of us sees something and it's too fleeting (or just too precious to bother) getting a pic, that one was "all yours". No one else will ever see that the way you did, even though fortunately you did get the pic. No one else will ever be ble to see it with your eye, to appreciate it from your perspective, or to take note of the tiny miracle of timing that let you do so. I really like the positive oppostition to Whitman's "Oh me! Oh life!" His was negative, pessimistic, while yours is so positive. You affirm our lives while yet showing us that, like precious moments and tiny miracles, they too are fleeting; the sun soon passes over and the miracle fades.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo and poem! Have to capture those moments before they disappear. No one can see it like you can.
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