A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Or a dozen at least)
I've long struggled with poetry, but I recently realized I have a few great beginnings. As I was reading through my attempts, I suddenly saw the entirety of each piece...but in images.
Either you're real, or I'm God.
I sometimes wonder, and get lost in it.
The son is the sun, in the end all is won and one.
My thoughts start out like poetry,
but finish like the rantings of a madman.
I call the wind and it lifts my spirit,
I should stop hanging up.
I am the author of my life, and this is my story.
Generously created for me by @son-of-satire
This is wonderful visual poetry. I think it works on so many layers. I read through it initially taking in both words and imagery. Then Just the words, and lastly just the pictures. It tells a lot at each layer. Rereading it as a whole after that added to its meaning for me.
This is worth many words indeed.
Okay, this is awesome. It's exactly what I would hope for someone to do, since I didn't actually write the words to fit the pictures, I found the images, and in a couple of cases went and took them, to fit the words.
Thank you! I have to drop by your page soon, love your writing :)
Poetry is like the gentle pulls of your heart, and the ability to share them with others, less they be lost, and only a madman remains. Keep sharing, I am now following your journey
Oh, very nice poetic comment! Thank you, look forward to your company :)
You are welcome, i love poetry
Well you make poetry look easy to do, and effortless, but I happen to know that poetry is neither! Nicely done, and the scenes around the lakes there are beginning to feel very comfortable and familiar to me. You definitely have a very poetic playground there for inspiration!
I appreciate that, considering these were all beginnings to poems I never actually finished :) I thought they might actually make up a poem with some images to help them along :)
The pictures that I chose for "My thoughts start out like poetry...", I took them on a back road, the first one is me standing under a tree of an abandoned house looking out across the field, the second was a couple minutes later when a guy drove by on a lawnmower (and he was actually mumbling to himself which is what made me think of these pictures for this to begin with....though I have no room to judge since I have definitely been known to talk to myself, or rather be one of my character's talking to other characters lol :)
Oh I get it now! I actually thought I was reading one single poem here, which again shows what I know about poetry. Somehow they tried to fit together in my head! I like that last picture in the park, the picnic table looks like a toy for some reason, the whole thing is surreal.
I actually imagined you saying something about that last picture, and I also imagined my response to it haha. I took it part way down a hill, here's another:
It must be those bent shadows that make it so odd- I've seen examples of different aperture settings that can make a house look like a doll house, but I don't know how to do that myself-- I know 'shutter speed' and 'white balance', and that's it!
Actually, I didn't use anything on that picture except for sharpen, which is what made the already green grass pop even more. The bent shadows are a product of the angle I took it from.
I did notice how vivid the color was- I'm thinking the 'toy' effect is caused by the camera focusing on all points while the shadows insist that the table is not close enough to be focused as it is, so my eye gets dazzled. As I understand aperture settings, they would allow a deeper range to be focused on, making everything in the pic appear closer, and thus toy-like. I should play with that feature sometime, the camera has a setting that probably makes it simple, but there's never time...
Aw I absolutely love this. I also have lots and lots of poetry beginnings... perhaps I'll have a look through my photos and see if I can come up with an image to represent the entirety of each beginning as you have done and finally finish them!
So much Yes!! in this line
What I particularly love about how you've done this, is each line + image creates a whole story. Spending time looking at each image with the words really opens up my imagination, and kind of works like a tool for seeing what's going on in my mind right now. I suppose everyone would pull a different story out of each line/image combo.
Yes, love love love. :)
Oh wow! This is just awesome. Loving the pictures @dreemit!
When last were you on chat?
Hi there! Thank you :) Oh, actually I've been using discord for the most part, chat has been a problem for my computer lately, it keeps lagging. If you don't have an account on discord I can give chat a try though :)
I am on both discord and chat :) I just use chat a lot more.
I have a surprise for you! :) Send me a message on either chats, and we can talk.
Talk soon!
Ohhhh, I love surprises, how did you know? :) I just tried finding you in discord, is your name the same? Because it's not showing up for some reason. Add me as a friend dreemit8201. I am trying to get chat to load in the meantime.
Very beautiful pictures. Sometimes you don't need words when looking at beautiful scenery. When I'm out in nature it's easy to have brilliant thoughts but hard to put them into words. I've never been good at poetry. I like how you just put a picture with a caption. So simple but you say a lot.
Hi there! Thank you, and that's exactly right. I feel the words more than I think them when I'm surrounded by trees and water and other natural things.
The captions actually were either part of poems I'd attempted or taken from notes I've made. As I was looking through it I realized I had exactly what was needed to complete them :)
So glad you stopped by, it reminds me to drop by 'your place'. I find it difficult to keep up with everyone these days, then someone comments and I'm like "Oh yeah! I like them!" Haha :)
I know! The feed of people I follow moves so fast and I miss so many new posts. I saw you in my feed for the first time in weeks and I had one of those "oh yeah!" moments lol. Nice to see you drop by.
I have always admired people who can write a good poetry, I have tried teenager but without success, I never got a rhyme, you must do more often poetry dear friend @dreemit, congratulations for the good work, the images are amazing, thank you very much For this wonderful gift.
I wish you a beautiful weekend surrounded by family and friends.
Thank you my lovely friend @jlufer. I also find poetry difficult, I'm a long story writer as you know :)
That really worked, really well... made me realize how often "poetic moments" seem to rise out of gazing at some image or landscape and feeling moved.
It is so true my friend. Though in this case it was actually the words that brought to mind the images, but often when I'm out in nature I feel poetic, the landscape itself is always poetry :)
If only I could relate to this line. :) P.S. #waronspam
Hahaha!!
Yep, I'll be going through those in a bit.
I like it, everything you're in with the pics nicely!
Why thank you my rawking friend...how are those beers treatin' you? lol, I'll be checking that out uno momento :)
They weren't so good this week sob one was. Thankfully I have others off screen to tide me by :0)