Dinesh's photos
Artist
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Cloudy
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Survival
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Sunrise
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“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett
Toadstools
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The toadstools are starting to come up
circular and dry.
Nothing will touch them,
Gophers or chipmunks, wasps or swallows.
They glow in the twilight like rooted will-o’-the-wisps.
Nothing will touch them.
As though little roundabouts from the bunched unburiable,
Powers, dominions,
As though orphans rode herd in the short
as though they had heard the call,
They will always be with us,
transcenders of the world.
Someone will try to stick his beak into their otherworldly styrofoam.
Someone may try to taste a taste of forever.
For some it’s a refuge, for some a shady place to fall down.
Grief is a floating barge-boat,
who knows where it’s going to moor?
~ Charles Wright
Red Breasted Grosbeak
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Weather report
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I found a weed
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I found a weed
that had a mirror in it
and that mirror
looked in at
a mirror in me that
had a weed in it
~ A.R.Ammons
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Ammons
Nefyn
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Tweety
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Queue
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Downtown
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Water - conspicious consumption
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Sunset
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Walking in Sunshine
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Dark Hours
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I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.
Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that's wide and timeless.
So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:
a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.
"I love the dark hours" ~ Ranier Maria Rilke
Misgivings
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All crying, 'We will go with you, O Wind!'
The foliage follow him, leaf and stem;
But a sleep oppresses them as they go,
And they end by bidding them as they go,
And they end by bidding him stay with them.
Since ever they flung abroad in spring
The leaves had promised themselves this flight,
Who now would fain seek sheltering wall,
Or thicket, or hollow place for the night.
And now they answer his summoning blast
With an ever vaguer and vaguer stir,
Or at utmost a little reluctant whirl
That drops them no further than where they were.
I only hope that when I am free
As they are free to go in quest
Of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life
It may not seem better to me to rest
"Misgivings" ~ Robert Frost
Peace of Wild Things
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When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
"Peace of Wild things" ~ Wendell Berry