I have stopped by woods on a snowy evening.
It’s a sublime slanting sun, and,
camera in hand,
I come upon the hoped-for scene.
The reaching trees, silhouettes of bareness.
The furnace of the sun,
a smudge of burnt orange behind the ridge,
imparts a hue, a twilight blue
to the mile-long shadows in the powdery glitter.
I click and click with frantic abandon,
not wanting to lose this singular zenith of beauty.
How many shots? a hundred? a thousand?
I will take them home-
enhance them, adobe them, candy coat them
until they look, they look…
like those coffee table books that no one reads.
So, I turn to go, my anticipation tempered now.
I look back once more, in regret.
The deep blue shadows slowly lengthen
as the sun pours dark red lava down the hillside.
I stop. Upon a stump I sit.
There is longevity here, a longevity of bliss.
And now I know why those beautiful heavy books
have sticky pages and dusty covers
pristine of fingerprints.
Aremyfeetofftheground 
Sometimes life takes your breath away, doesn’t it?
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You’ve so poignantly expressed that never achievable gap between the beauty we behold in nature with our senses and the one we seek to share with others on two-dimensional surfaces.
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Thank you, that was the feeling I had.
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I really like this. It puts the reader right in the moment and it’s catching!
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Thanks so much!
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Beautiful!
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Thank you!
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The words so beautiful. The image so breathtaking. ❤️
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Thank you so much Isabelle!
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Beautiful piece and beautiful image, as well.
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Thanks so much!
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It is true..the scene can change in the blink of the eye.
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Lovely… This is a masterpiece 😊
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Thank you so much for your kind remark!
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Please keep writing 😊😊
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I very much enjoyed reading your poem, the first line of which reminds me of Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”. Best, Kevin
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Thank you, Kevin.
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Thank you very much!
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You are very welcome. I loved it!
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Thank you so much!
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