photography – Page 67 – Carrie Birde

Verticality — Images

Vertical Wood.jpg — “Vertical Wood” — C.Birde, 9/16

Amongst the verticality of trees

— their communal and elemental truth —

there is solace.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Woodland Path.jpg — “Woodland Path” — C.Birde, 9/16

Autumn Nature photo trees writing

Woodland Staircase — An Image

Woodland steps.jpg — “Woodland Steps” — C.Birde, 9/16

A quilt of worn bricks

remains

beneath moss and needle carpet.

Birch and pine and maple

glide skyward

through broken foundation,

through anamnesis.

And leaf-strewn steps

tumble

d

o

w

n

— like memory —

to the abiding

gray

sea.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Gray Sea.jpg — “Gray Sea” — C.Birde, 9/16

Nature photo writing

Moss Wood — An Image

Moss Wood.jpg — “Moss Wood” — C.Birde, 9/16

I heard the Wood call

in its moss-furred tongue.

I returned

in answer to that heart’s echo,

and was welcomed

as though time had not slipped

and shifted.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Nature photo writing

Reservoir of Night — An Image

Night reservoir.jpg — “Reservoir of Night” — C.Birde, 9/16

Moon’s image

floats

within

a reservoir

of night.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Nature photo writing

Earthworm Stylus — A Poem

WP_20160909_09_28_32_Smart (2).jpg — “Earthworm Trails” — C.Birde, 9/16

Intentions aside,

their bodies incise

the dry trail’s

dusted length

with their

desperate

search

for

m

o

i

s

t

u

r

e.

— C.Birde, 9/16

animals Nature photo writing

Dawn Wood — An Image

Tourne Dawn.jpg — “Dawn Wood” — C.Birde, 9/16

My invitation arrived

in the wood

at dawn.

— C.Birde, 9/16

Light Nature photo trees writing

Four Paws — A Poem

White Wood aster.jpg — “White Wood Aster” — C.Birde, 9/16

Four paws pause

on the mountain’s graveled flank —

she gathers news

from weed and shrub,

root and stone;

pulls me along.

No matter that I am

near senseless to all

she perceives –

I am content

to wait and contemplate

the weave of breeze

among branch and leaf

pressed to the breast

of gray-clad sky;

to gather for safe-keeping

the coruscating mantras

of crickets, birds and tree frogs

as wards against

future silence.

I am content

to admire those

steely wildflowers

that scatter fairy light

over the forest’s

parched floor

for as long

as I am permitted…

Until, urgently,

I am pulled

to move again —

rapidly and ever onward —

toward the next

newsworthy

site.

–C.Birde, 9/16

Created with Nokia Smart Cam — “Four Paws” — C.Birde, 9/16

animals Nature photographs writing

Helianthus — Images

Helianthus landscape.jpg — “Helianthus Landscape” — C.Birde, 9/16

Helianthus nods and smiles

beyond the window,

curious why I sit indoors

when I could be outside,

adorned in goldfinches

and bees.

— C. Birde, 9/16

Helianthus 3.jpg — “Helianthus Portrait” — C.Birde, 9/16

flowers Nature photo writing

The Linden — A Poem

“Linden Tree” — C.Birde, 8/16

Stay…

Linger beneath the linden —

that tree of bees

and heart-shaped leaves.

We’ll spread a blanket

in restless shade

over the drowsing heads

of sweet clover,

and name the birds’

erratic patterns

scrawled across the sky.

Together, we’ll drift

as Summer slips

us by.

— C.Birde, 8/16

Linden, square.jpg — “Linden & Light” — C.Birde, 8/16

Nature photo trees writing

Toadthrone — An Image

“Toadthrone” — C.Birde, 8/16

In a neighboring realm

stands a Toadthrone so grand,

the green grass is left to weave unshorn about it.

(And some secretly anticipate the royal personage

who must

hold court

there.)

— C.Birde, 8/16

Nature photo writing