In order to get a double exposure for K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, I installed GIMP. I am still going through their tutorials.
The top image is what I started with. The contrast between the green and yellow leaves already seem like a double exposure. The bottom image I’ve titled, “Proof That I Don’t Know What I’m Doing”, but I do kind of like that bright yellow near the center.
Inner guidance, help me see
Right across the sky.
May what’s best above come true
Even what I didn’t do
Even when I didn’t try.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Wings Across the Sky”. Also linked to Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays where she describes trusting in her inner guidance.
Photos: “Wings Above the Water”, above, and “Wings Go for the Sky”, below.
Much of me’s a home for bugs,
The kind that I can’t see.
They’re in, about and all around.
They’re happy in the home they’ve found:
Their home sweet home is me.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “creepy crawlies”. The reference in the poem is to the “holobiome” mentioned by Steven Gundry in “The Plant Paradox”.
Cars are cool but not like clouds.
They’re not like birds or trees.
They’re not like anything I know
Though cool and fast and off they go
While birds enjoy the breeze.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Get your motors running; cool cars that caught your eye”.
Photos: “Clouds Outside”, above, “Disappearing in the Trees”, below.
There’s much around me I don’t see
Even when I try.
We’re shown it all, full-colored, bright.
Whatever’s hiding in this light
Is true like pure blue sky.
“Swan with Family Safe”, above, and “Bug Exploring Blossom”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Hiding in Plain Sight”.
Forgiveness is the food of love
That patience hopes to bring.
We eat while daily dreaming of
How peace would let us sing.
Text: Linked to Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays.
Photos: “Light on Hickory Leaf”, above, and “Fence and Birdhouse”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “The Food of Love”. Taken near Stoney Run County Park in Hebron, Indiana.
Angelic voices I would hear.
It’d comfort me to know they’re near,
But what I see are birds and trees.
The longed for songs are sung through these.
Photos: “White and Green”, above, and “Yellow and Green”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme: “Beautiful Spirits of the Natural World”.
A sidewalk is a street for feet
With one for cars nearby.
My mind takes detours off and on
And sometimes when its good and gone
I let my spirit fly.
Photos: “Summer Street”, above, “Winter Street”, below. Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the prompt “Street Photography”. Although these scenes are more of the sidewalk, the street to the right is the main street off the set of town homes where we live.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 