Quite Similar In-Deed [Reflections on Chris Orwig's Book Poetic Photography - Chapter 1] (Matt. 13:10-17)

Ten ways he figures poems and one’s pix
Are similar – for each one can depict
A scene, or mood, or aspect of one’s life
(Some learn, as artist, from each other’s light).

1 – Both mix “confounding mystery” with truth
Encased in beauty, captured on life’s route;
Or made, created, poured into the mix
Of people’s lives who view poetic pix.

2 – Both forms of art slip under our defense;
We need deep change to move from here, and hence
We need both words and photos crafted well,
To feed our hearts and minds within their spell.

3 – In poems, as in photographs, we read
Just half the text; the rest, we also need
So we can comprehend, we add it in –
What’s on the page, is there to thought begin.

4 – Vacation choice (adventures great or small)
Appeal to some, to others not at all;
Both types of art use puzzles light or dense,
So artist’s viewers pick degree it’s tense.

5 – The purpose of a poem and a pix,
Is light the fire inside, so reader clicks
Back into life – imagination flares –
They make connections, warming how one cares.

6 – Good poems, pictures, cycle ’round inside
Their borders, holding, having us reside
One moment longer, drinking in delight,
Then coming back to check we’ve got it right.

7 – The value sensed within each form of art,
Is mystical in process – artist’s part
Seems simple, clean, and effortless in ways –
We try, then find it’s skill expressed that pays.

8 – “How do you work so fast?” The woman asked;
“I see it first, then I let go my past;
Not bound to way, or my matériel” –
Selection’s half of how both come out well.

9 – Our senses dull in humdrum of routine;
Good poems, photos, fire us with what’s seen;
Full keyboard of emotions deep within
Evoked and captured, new life then begins.

10 – When we meet poets, photo-artist types,
We often find their art and lives fit tight;
For life and art admix – can’t stay aloof
If we’re to share the best, with art as proof.

Augmented text – a mix of both these forms –
Improves, enhances viewers, as it warms
Our hearts within, with heat that moves on out
’Till world around’s enriched while we’re about.

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