Sunday, February 13, 2011

Portal of Rock and Stone


Looking out:
Stares through to beyond
field, hill, history
of possibility, hope
boundless
breaking past the confines
of a life, of lives.

Looking in:
Peers through sunlight into
mind, heart soul
through ruined lens
of wood and rock
to interior rooms,
now grass-carpeted.

Looking at:
Observes the painting
displayed on a wall of light
designed, imagined
as future, as past
the eye’s landscape
beckoning, retreating.


This poem is submitted for One Shot Sunday hosted by One Stop Poetry. To see additional poems (and some spectacular photographs), please visit the site.

Photograph by Sean McCormick for One Stop Poetry. Used with permission.
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16 comments:

  1. Brian MillerFebruary 13, 2011 at 7:46 AM

    mmm...nice glynn...the last stanza in particular...nice imagery...

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  2. dustusFebruary 13, 2011 at 9:17 AM

    Inventive, interesting structure... amazing the perceptual shifts in language that occur when something as slight as a 2 or three letter preposition drastically alters meaning, in addition to effecting a reader's response and an observer's perceptions in explaining "art."

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  3. JerryFebruary 13, 2011 at 9:31 AM

    You captured the important angles. Great pounding imagery again.

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  4. Louise GallagherFebruary 13, 2011 at 9:38 AM

    I like how your eye takes us out, and in and to the observer within.

    Very nice.

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  5. MaureenFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:03 AM

    I like how you've created three frames of reference for a visually very interesting image and then imagined what the eye might see through each one.

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  6. Maude LynnFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:26 AM

    I really like the structure of this.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:56 AM

    You've taken the process of photography from the camera into a trip to the self. Like the way you've turned it into looking out at Tge shot so to speak giving a very human perspective. Glynn, this was very special x

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  8. S. EtoleFebruary 13, 2011 at 11:24 AM

    I like the different perspectives ...

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  9. Brock S. HenningFebruary 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM

    Glynn, you always have a cool way of looking at things and translating into poetry.

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  10. Carmela-JFebruary 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM

    Great take - I love the sense of perspective that you've created here. With each change of view I feel like I'm moving to see what you see.

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  11. hedgewitchFebruary 13, 2011 at 2:25 PM

    Well constructed as always, but the thoughts and words are haunting as well..."...the painting
    displayed on a wall of light..." A fine line in a harmonious frame itself.

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    a portal of rock
    framed
    a sill wooden
    still

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  13. Kathleen OverbyFebruary 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    iLike.

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  14. signed...bkmFebruary 13, 2011 at 6:50 PM

    love the three different perspectives on viewing the world and on viewing life....bkm

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  15. ReflectionsFebruary 13, 2011 at 9:13 PM

    Nice play with this one, like to give and take moments, reflective.

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