One Shoot Sunday and Memory Lane–Purple Profundity: Poetry by Elisabeth Connelley

Good Morning! It’s One Shoot Sunday again! The following is quoted to attribute the photographer and the site that supports and encourages The Poetry Challenge of One Shoot Sunday.

“Greg Laychak is what is known as a documentary photographer. Originally from Canada, Greg has since moved to South Korea, where he created his prominent work, “Fading Voices” – a photo documentary project about victims/survivors of sexual slavery from WWII. Greg’s work often focuses on the concept of identity, a fact that hovers, almost hauntingly, through many of his photographs.

If you’re interested in seeing more of his work, note that it will be exhibiting in London from May 11 through 24 at the Hotshoe Gallery.

~Chris Galford”

Memory Lane
Looking far ahead
from my place
in this
hall
of memories

I live
here,
it
holds
me
and all

that I see
in windows
delusion
or fog
mine

never touched
but by me
things snatched
shoved
placed
carefully
or not
into baskets of safety
and ownership
along my way
and yours

I sit and caress them
order them
change me
and what I think of them
my brothers and sisters
no doors to close
and

I sit
up
a bit straighter
the leaves
on the trees
laugh and chatter
dancing on refreshing breezes
and grinning
lightness
in the Sun.

–by Elisabeth Connelley, Purple Profundity

Morning Trip (53)

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
– The Yosemite (1912), page 256.

One Shoot Sunday and A Child–Purple Profundity: Poetry by Elisabeth Connelley

Good Morning! It’s One Shoot Sunday again! The following is quoted to attribute the photographer and the site that supports and encourages The Poetry Challenge of One Shoot Sunday.

‘Tis good to have choices… Fellow artist and One Shoot Sunday alumnus, James Rainsford understands that and has even suggested an excellent picture prompt challenge. So take your pick. Go on, James offers us five photos.

~Dustus

For more examples of James’ art see:
The Sanctum of Sanity
Poems from James’ new collection

A Child
I sit amongst the trees
the breeze
to take
my soul, I rest in unkempt grasses
cushioned among hills of moss
which grows, where
the sun cannot penetrate
the great ceiling of leaves.
The clover stretches endlessly
to one
lying minute
miniscule
yet a part of such a place.
The leaves quiver,
as boughs are waved
hoping to
catch a
glimpse of tiny angel’s eyes,
they peek shyly ’round the limbs
of one so aged and strong
gnarled trunks
holding
secrets known, before
such rancor
did we
the human race display
upon the dirty streets
and smells
rough chemicals
and poisons we disperse
shall please those of a soul
so fell
the mighty aged trunks
and leaning one by one…
Yet wait,
a tiny twinkle far away,
There,
a child, no more than three
flies dancing with the trees
Just in that moment
when,
the sun’s sharp rays come piercing down
through shadows in the wood
Childish laughter
Pelting,
out man’s noise
His arms outspread
and turning ’round
trees spin above his head
A child will free us all
one day
They shall dispel man’s dread.

–by Elisabeth Connelley

Going to Erie

I haven’t posted in ages. I’m not feeling creative along my ‘normal’ avenues of expression. I’m feeling very…I dunno a word…so I’ll choose excited. I’m taking one of my kiddos to visit colleges in Erie PA. This will allow me to visit another of my kiddos, already attending college there! I don’t have a lot of money for travel and I’m quite happy to find that since I am feeling a bit more comfortable with the driving directions there, that I can relax and enjoy along the way. I want to stop the car and take pictures of the highest point on 80, east of the Mississippi! I want to stop the car and drive into the National park along the way and get images! The hotel is easy to find at the bottom of the exit ramp! One of the colleges is right in downtown and I will get to park and tour the city on a trolley, again being able to relax and take things in! The island is waking up from winter and I’ll get to see the bay and Lake Erie for the first time! I might get pictures of the huge ship too.

The Art Museum is open Sunday for Second Sunday for freeeeeee!!! I was invited to a Mercyhurst College Performance of Opera and accompaniment on Sunday evening! Soooooo many things to do and to see! FOOD FOR MY BRAIN AND HEART! And we all get to have my daughter’s and my birthday cake with candles and everything too! E says I can wear the birthday glasses first and that K will have to wait her turn! Sand and lapping lake water! 😀

If I’m not careful my moments will all lap together and I’ll get confused!

See you when I get back!