Colors shining.
In violet, indigo and pink and gleaming ultramarine.
They dance, these colors.
Softly. Upon the waters.
From The Pond
be still and just BE….
just breathe
until you hear the colors sing and come to life
sit by the pond’s edge
and wait….
and wait,
until at last,
you hear
the silence
The photograph, IS the Art
They dance, these colors.
Softly.
strong in their silence
Upon the waters.
No need to “paint it”
its already finished.
No need to tame it
its not that kind.
No need to do a thing –
but simply,
join the dance
upon the waters.
Creating, Recreating, Transforming
With this image, I was able to take the ‘not too bad’ photograph and transform it.
Into how I wanted it to be.
How it looked in my mind’s eye, for just a flash of a moment, at the time I was sitting at the pond.
And I imagined the colors deeper, richer, with more indigo and magenta.
I imagined,
the strength of silence combined with those colors.
Sometimes my efforts work out. Sometimes they don’t.
It is, as always, a roll of the dice.
Isn’t that, the fun part?!
debi riley 
A very good poem. Thanks for sharing!
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thank you, glad you enjoyed this! 🙂 cheers, debi
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You are welcome!
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Very nice poem indeed with a beautiful picture at the beginning
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And for some reason reminds me of this Atget painting here: https://memoryslandscape.tumblr.com/post/162775305243/eugène-atget-saint-cloud-étang-9-h-matin
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thank you David. I had a look and was so intrigued with Atget’s work, I did some ‘googling. I found his lifestory quite interesting.
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Love the poem and the final product, Debi. The image looks both painterly and like a photo at the same time. So beautiful and so many lovely hues. Agree that creating art that we’re satisfied with is always a roll of the dice. You don’t know until you try and experiment and most importantly go along with the flow. The more we do, the more we get lost and the greater the possibility we feel our dreams and intuition, and come up with something magnificent.
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beautiful
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This is wonderful!
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