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there is this photo....you see of pretty much nothing...of nowhere....at least.... nowhere i know... the skies are blue, with a cotton balling of innoccuos clouds it seems as tho the weather would be pleasant there. there is a gray-blue-rock covered track, well road, that roughly disects the photo, beginning right in the centre at the forfront and then wending off to the right behind a small hill. the track would be wide enough for a small car or cart but is in the picture devoid off traffic. as is it's smaller, companion walking path, terraced and to the left of the road. cut about six foot below the road persay to the right, a spindly tree of indeterminate species then, stretching off to the photo's edge, green grasses, roughly, cropped low by machine or beast. to the left, once again below, the walking path, a swathe of green and then, an expanse of water, loch, lake, river, i do not know, but it is wide and slow. there are no, watercraft, no birds, to be seen. just water,  greenery,   a spindly tree and the two tracks, leading to god knows where and coming from, behind the lense. but right now, the ambiguity of destination, the lonliness of the landscape are appealing, enthralling, even. there is a dichotomy, in the fecund greeness of the grass, opposed to the, apperent, barenness of the lake. and in the disection of the pastoral scene, by man made road, there is disruption, there is choice. to, cant to one side, or the other. there is choice to, go forth into the unkown. or to, retrace one steps on the road behind. it is a photo, that while not bucolic in nature, is pleasant that is well framed, ....that is the one... you take when you want to finish the roll of film, or these days fill the memory card... why it has me, fascinated at present is ... it is a photo of somewhere... that is not here... it is a photo of somewhere... where, the possibilties are new,untried...not impossible .......where the grass .......is greener...where the grass is greener...where the grass is.....
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 4:10 PM UTC
the photo
there is this photo....you see of pretty much nothing...of nowhere....at least.... nowhere i know... the skies are blue, with a cotton balling of innoccuos clouds it seems as tho the weather would be pleasant there. there is a gray-blue-rock covered track, well road, that roughly disects the photo, beginning right in the centre at the forfront and then wending off to the right behind a small hill. the track would be wide enough for a small car or cart but is in the picture devoid off traffic. as is it's smaller, companion walking path, terraced and to the left of the road. cut about six foot below the road persay to the right, a spindly tree of indeterminate species then, stretching off to the photo's edge, green grasses, roughly, cropped low by machine or beast. to the left, once again below, the walking path, a swathe of green and then, an expanse of water, loch, lake, river, i do not know, but it is wide and slow. there are no, watercraft, no birds, to be seen. just water,  greenery,   a spindly tree and the two tracks, leading to god knows where and coming from, behind the lense. but right now, the ambiguity of destination, the lonliness of the landscape are appealing, enthralling, even. there is a dichotomy, in the fecund greeness of the grass, opposed to the, apperent, barenness of the lake. and in the disection of the pastoral scene, by man made road, there is disruption, there is choice. to, cant to one side, or the other. there is choice to, go forth into the unkown. or to, retrace one steps on the road behind. it is a photo, that while not bucolic in nature, is pleasant that is well framed, ....that is the one... you take when you want to finish the roll of film, or these days fill the memory card... why it has me, fascinated at present is ... it is a photo of somewhere... that is not here... it is a photo of somewhere... where, the possibilties are new,untried...not impossible .......where the grass .......is greener...where the grass is greener...where the grass is.....
napowrimo write day 27 prompt; write a poeem in response to one of four photos supplied. we humans always looking... but truly my grass more than green enough for me.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 4:10 PM UTC
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