Wednesday, August 1, 2007

The Poetry of the Sky


Visual poetry. This is what I see when I step outside my front door.


The rest of the sky photos are accompanied by poetry and quotes.




I myself have been tempted for a long time by the cloud-moving wind - filled with a strong desire to wander. Matsuo Basho




The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson



The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. Frederick L. Knowles





Nature was streaming into us, wooingly teaching her wonderful glowing lessons… every wild lesson a love lesson. John Muir




Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore



Your world is as big as you make it. Georgia Douglas Johnson



Strong and content I travel the open road. Walt Whitman




This is Sky, my friend Mary's cat



I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. Albert Einstein






Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock



There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. Linda Hogan






It is good to love the unknown. Charles Lamb


2 comments:

Yvonne said...

These pictures are so beautiful and so vivid, I feel like I'm there with you enjoying the landscape. Now if you also paint, most of these shots would translate beautifully onto canvas. I have a painter friend in Georgia who does just that, takes photos and then paints what she has captured in the photos. She then sells her artwork in galleries in downtown Savannah.

Amanda said...

Thanks Yvonne! Glad you like these. I haven't picked up a paint brush in quite a while. That's cool about your friend. Hopefully I'll see you in Savannah in October and can see her work.