Two vivid rainbows, arcing over and through a turquoise sky, can never touch.
A still damp leaf twirls as it falls and meets the embrace of the drying earth.
A word like an arrow in flight that has yet to alight.
The humbled bow.
And exit.
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A poignant look at beautiful, vital voices meeting briefly, passing but not intersecting.
ReplyDeleteThe thoughts may be scattered, but you connected them quite poetically.
ReplyDelete"Two vivid rainbows, arcing over and through a turquoise sky, can never touch."
ReplyDeleteLove that line, it says so much!
You're back, yay! Or are you? Hope you had a lovely trip!
And that is a gorgeous photograph.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul. Glad you enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteBuon giorno, Kass! Nice to read you!
The title actually came from the song I was listening when I wrote these lines. "Scaterlings of Africa", by Johnny Clegg. The words kinda just sprung out of nowhere. Glad it all found someway to make sense.
Namaste Sangu! Yeah I'm back. I've been whittling away at my backlog of unread posts from least to most favorite. I only have 26 left... Yours are almost half of that. : j
I expect I'll be talking to you in a second as I get to them.
Oh and glad you liked the post.
Trip was cool, didn't do all that much but took an SD card's worth of pictures. Went canoeing at noon on the hottest day seen in Rhode Island for the last 30 years (or so I was told). Fun stuff. : j
What a beautiful picture! Is it real...photoshop? Almost surreal in the intensity of color. And I never considered the fact that rainbows can never touch...but I have never seen them do so. Sad that...to be so beautiful, and so separate.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back!
Heya Annie. Thanks for the welcome! : j
ReplyDeleteI expect the contrast and the levels have been adjusted on this shot to make it more striking, but dual rainbows can look like that. I shot one just like it over the ocean once, way back in the age of film camera... In the age where skill was needed to take pictures with a camera. : j It didn't come out as nicely.
Technically, a true dual rainbow like the one depicted in the picture is actually the same light being reflected at different angle. The giveaway is that the secondary starts with the color the primary ends with. So in truth, it's just a matter of perspective, at heart the two rainbows are the same light, it's just the viewer, ie us, that sees them as separate. : j And to quite fight club: "Her name was Polyanna" . : j
Hahaha yeah sorry for the onslaught of unread posts, I've been keeping my promise to myself to try and blog every day! Just caught the first of your comments!
ReplyDeleteWow how hot was the hottest day? It's so bleak here (bloody England) that a hot day seems blissful...
Lol, don't apologize for being a good blogger! : j
ReplyDelete96°F/35,5°C. Which didn't feel all that hot to me... Even in my black leather and chrome spikes. ; j
Yeah, there's the reason Rhode Island isn't known for its hot weather. It's not that far more south that the UK when you look at the latitude. : j
Beautiful words to match a beautiful photo!
ReplyDeleteThanks Talli. : j
ReplyDeleteGorgeous prose! Better than the photo!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jessica!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but reading your comment made me burst out into the closing song of Wong Kar Wai's "Falen Angels"... An a capella cover version (by the flying pickets(better than the original)) of only you. I just looked it up on youtube and out of the movie's context the song feels sappy, but while fighting back the tears at the end of the movie, it works great. : j
I wonder what thoughts or impressions gave rise to such a serene contemplation.;)
ReplyDeleteI see I have missed the conclusion of your story (below).;) I have been preoccupied with work, but I am now off to remedy that negligence.
I hope you had a lovely break;)
xo
Haha! Hejsa Zuzana! Hmm... Oddly enough this, post was triggered from watching bad romacoms on the plane. : j I did have a good time, it was restful. What do you do for work?
ReplyDeleteI love your words; you captured so much~
ReplyDeleteI love the line:
A word like an arrow in flight that has yet to alight. I agree with, The Alliterative Allomorph, your words out shine the photo!
Halito Ellie!
ReplyDeleteWow, this piece seems to have pleased.
Glad you enjoyed it... Also glad to hear the text outweighs the illustration.
But now I'm suddenly worried! Does that mean that, usually, the random images I grab off of the net outweigh my original writing? Oh woe and calamity... Oh woe and calamari! I suppose I'd better octopi my time by sharpening my pen than looking for pretty pictures. : j
Hehehehe...
"A still damp leaf twirls as it falls and meets the embrace of the drying earth."
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
I can't believe we're in the same city for such a short time!
Heya Theresa.
ReplyDeleteYeah I know, I know! I was thinking how it would be a serious kick in the head to bump into you. : j
Thanks for stopping by!
Who knows, maybe we passed by one another and didn't know it. After all, your picture tells me little about how you look!
ReplyDeleteIf you saw anyone who looked like a double-headed art-nouveau figure with a keltic weave trim- that was me! ; j
ReplyDeleteOk, maybe it doesn't say a lot about how I look, but it does say a lot about how I think.