Best Photographs Poems

Opening the dusty leather bound album
Lots of memories come flooding back
Dad had a lot more hair back then!

Proud parents when our son was born
How he’s...

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With my brightened lens, I watch you
mystically zooming in     zooming out,
and my eyes focus on the shutter where
 a hundred gulls...

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Fading photographs are strewn across alabaster tabletops,  
drenched in moonlight streaming through rustling curtains.  
Snow owls call out to each other through the...

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 I’m tracing memories in fading photographs,  
    oblivious to the storms that sepia frames clasp,  
questioning pixelated sparks, will...

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"Old photographs have something that is beautiful
and timeless, like works of art."

            ...

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Photographs share his long and changing journey.
Youth one day moves to the bearded grey.
Smiles of playful days captured for an eternity in black and white.
He...

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Some poems are poured
when a poet loses someone,
so those who cannot write,
feel words mirroring their souls.

Since the betrayal of your blind vision,
I've been roaming in...

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One by one, with trembling heart,
I pull out faded memories.
Dust off the years that have no part,
of what's left of you and me,
saying goodbye while...

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Mornings blushed in dew
replicating your jubilant smile,
love-ladened cupcakes in pink
flavored by your honey-dipped fingers,
fragrance of your jasmine-clad hair
swaying along every time you danced,
exchanging exclusive looks...

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Above: Wystan in fancy dress
as a beetle -1912


Photographs of Wystan

One of the world's
greatest poets
in a pose, similar
to an Anne Gedde's baby
 
Balancing beetle antennae
his head...

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how memories mellow with time
nostalgia falls upon us all
days of youth awake from dreamy nights
warm feelings turn images to treasure 

silent witnesses capturing still moments
creating...

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My older photo books sit on the bottom shelf.
Sometimes I dust them off and look at every page.
Revisiting the past through faded Polaroids
reminds me of...

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Beneath the gnarled branches,  
A photo rests within my clutch.  
Time drips like honeyed amber;  
I long for vanished visions,
Saudade, a muffled...

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Past to present flashes,
priceless pages of life
physically twining
perpetual moments:
personalities smiles,
passing squirms! Jumps! Cries! Clicks!
Portrait heirlooms of LOVE...
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November 11, 2015...

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Luke got hold of a camera
 And went on a picture taking spree
 He took a picture of his baby brother
 He took a picture...

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