Let me.
Walk upon the sands.
Near the shores of Shelley Beach.
Let me gaze into pools. With jewels just out of reach. ~Ally.
I've been invited by Isabel @nolasco to participate in @dejan.vuckovic's Seven Day Poetry Challenge.
The rules are simple:
Write one poem every day for 7 days.
Use the tag: #poetrychallenge as one of your 5 tags.
Nominate a different person every day to join you in the challenge.
Jewels just out of reach.
This second 'poem' was inspired by memories of time spent alone at Shellharbour and Bass Point Marine Reserve, a three hour train trip from Sydney: Rekindled by photographs taken there of old weathered shells and the rockpools they had lain in for eons, as well as a few photographs of the most ordinary sand patterns you may have ever seen for @kus-knee's Mundane as Art: Sand Patterns Challenge.
My writings.
In my initial article: Seven Day Poetry Challenge. Day 1. We three kings I spoke about my 'poems' only ever being a few short lines and how they are developed freeing as I'm sharing one of my photographs.
Of how: Words come to me, which I sometimes have to find out what they actually mean: My love of the obvious as much as the obscure and my desire for minimalism although my creations are propelled to complexity.
And how: I use single words and short phrases that are often interrupted and flow onto the next line, to lose their original meaning.
In imagery, I've always loved transparency: Be it in watercolour and acrylic glazes, collage and sculpture and now in my own work with glass and ice. And it occurs to be that this quality might come into my writing now as well, in some still un-be-known to me way.
Sweeping curves. Jewels just out of reach.
Layers of water currents.
Have you ever become aware of the different layers of water currents, when you look down into rock-pools? It's mesmerizing.
Surface ocean currents can be deep and narrow while other currents are shallow and wide. Some move quickly while others move more slowly. Currents are often affected by the shape of the ocean floor and can also change in depth and speed over time. Source: Surface Ocean Currents.
Gaze softly upon the surface of the water of a rock-pool and you may actually see different layers of water moving in different directions at different speeds. I only just noticed this a few years ago and ever since have been totally enthralled by it.
Still water. Surface ripples. Multicolored Jewels.
How to see different layers of water all at the same time.
An easy way to train yourself to see these different layers all at the same time is to look into a rock-pool. Look at the bottom layer: The shells and starfish, crevices and crabs. Now see the top surface layer: The light dancing on the ripples of this layer of water as it comes and goes. Now you may notice that there is a layer in-between. And as you tune in: You can see all three layers moving at different speeds.
Maybe there are many many more layers, but I'm in Sea Heaven when I see three.
Rock crevices. Sea Creatures. Barely a ripple. So close you can almost touch them.
Once again: The 'poem' with a few shifts and a second verse. All sung to the beat of Orinoco Flow:
Let me walk. On the shores of Shelley Beach.
Let me gaze. Let me gaze. To jewels just out of reach.
Let me see. Far beyond the surface waves.
Let me love. Let me love. This space that none enslaves.
I'd like to nominate a musician and writer of poetry and prose, Jerry E Smith @jerrytsuseer as my second participant for the Seven Day Poetry Challenge.
Thanks so much Dejan @dejan.vuckovic for initiating the Seven Day Poetry Challenge and a heart felt thanks to Isabel @nolasco for nominating me.
People I have invited to join the Seven Day Poetry Challenge.
Art and Photography: ©Alison Lee Cousland.
Camera: Sony Alpha A7 Mark II.
Processing: Lightroom.
