“Youth is Happy Because…”

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Black and White, Caterpillar, Florida, Life, Nature, Nature Photography, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Swamp Moth Caterpillar, Youth

Where raindrop shadows spill

On a bed of rusting leaves-
A Caterpillar sleeps

With lemon dreams

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
– Franz Kafka

September Broodings

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“(She slowly twists the ring off her finger. Somewhere there is a cry of anguish. She listens attentively till it fades out, then nods with understanding.)

“―Wild things leave skins behind them, they leave clean skins and teeth and white bones behind them, and these are tokens passed from one to another, so that the fugitive kind can always follow their kind…”
―Tennessee Williams, “Orpheus Descending”“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
―Tennessee Williams, “Sweet Bird of Youth”“We’re all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
―Tennessee Williams

“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”
―Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire”

Last Flare of Afternoon

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Black and White, Florida, Grief, Hiking, Landscape, Loss, Nature, Nature Photography, Photography, Poetry, Scrub Trails, Thoughts

I stopped by the roadside

To roam the silken sky

Prairie hawk and starling

Leering down at me

Razor wire glinting in blank Sun

Bombilating Life

With the sound of Death

Transformed

Shadow of your splayed soul

Spilled and spread like blood

In the bleached, rippled sands

And so in a splash of Amber Glow

Your Twilight arrived too soon-

The last Flare of afternoon