Pix to Words Podcast
Pix to Words is a blog featuring the synthesis of my passions for photography and writing. I use my own photographs as inspiration for the words written there. This podcast presents readings from those posts and, often, commentary about them.
Episodes
Day 18 of NaPoWriMo 2024
The drive down Newfoundland's west coast from L'Anse Aux Meadows, the site of North America's only confirmed Viking settlement, reminds me a little of California's glorious Mendocino highway. It was very windy that day.
Better formatting in the post, along with an audio reading of the poem.
* Lessons from the Wind *
Wind bends the grasses
Agitates the sea
Riffling waves r...
The Fall
I fall
A cascade
Out of the mist
Down the rocky narrows
Seeking the still
Cool waters
Their calm
But there is no pool
Only the decline
Until I am reduced
To a trickle
Then
nothing
A macaque shares the rooftop
Lingers on the rail
As the rising sun stokes
The smoke laden atmosphere
To molten amber
It's tempting to believe
The monkey is as enthralled as I
With the iconic Red Fort silhouette
But I rather suspect the bugger's
Feigning disinterest in my breakfast
They're clever that way
To stray any further from the table
Set lavishly with silver and crystal on white tablecloth
Would invite a blitzkrieg
And the ...
Sol yet plays coy with leaden horizon
But there is enough magic
In dawn's wan light
To illumine the contrast
Of ancient glory
Astride modern poverty
While camera and I
Find beauty in both
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About the photograph:
Contrast in Wan Light
Chandni Chowk (Old Delhi) and Red Fort
New Delhi, India
Taken during travels, January 2017
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A reading from the blog post:
Contrast in Wan Light: https://pixtowords....
You with those sad eyes
In the sallow light
Backdropped by electric blue
And me with the glass eye
Recorder of moments
Context only by supposition
I could not ask you then
What countenanced such sorrow
Or was it just an unguarded moment
Emotion apparent in an unintended gesture
I am left only with guesses
While you cannot even know
Someone reflects on this moment
From half a world away
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About the photograph:
You W...
This parade of life
This hubbub of trade
Of needs
Of desires
This chaos of order
And community
And here am I
Amid the throng
In the moments between
Want and have
In the choices between
Necessity and pleasure
This is existential quandary
Alone in my thoughts
In a sea of solitary moments
Each a universe
Borne from a solitary mind
Known only to itself
These in parallel all
With the essentials
Of desire
And necessity
A flurry of univer...
In motion
I am still
In stillness
I am empty
In emptiness
I find no peace
Hollow
Haunted
Vacant
Amidst this familiar pandemonium
I alone am solid
Yet invisible
Carrying as passenger
A pain which pays no fare
Answers no questions
Offers no solutions
The me of this moment
None will remember
Not even I
But here
The pain shuffles off
Into the crowd
And I will not remember it either
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About the photograph:
Bicycle Rickshaw Driver
Chandni Cho...
Suffocating smoke
Smothers glimmer and glee
Even the sun subdued
To wan gloom
Long before it sets
Still
I know colour lingers beneath
Recall its effervescence
Manifest the latent joy
Until that rises above the horizon
Of my heart
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About the photograph:
p>Latent ColourRishikesh
Uttarakhand, India
Taken during travels, 2017
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A reading from the blog post:
Manifest Colour: https://pixtowords.c...
Cloudy tendrils cling to hillsides
As a child to its mother on school's first day
The bus driver beckons
Come, this way to new worlds
Mother's kiss lingers on rosy chee k
Solid and eternal as the hills
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About the photograph:
Eternal as the Hills
East Arm
Highway 430
Gros Morne National Park
Newfoundland, Canada
Taken during travels, 2023
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Some places just feel ancient
Time there stopped
And the land quit changing
I never feel more here and now
Than in such places
This little speck of life, I
In the midst
Of eternity
One tiny moment
Of meaninglessness
Writ large on existence
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About the photograph:
Timeless Bay
Gros Morne National Park
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Taken during travels, 2023
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A reading from the blog post:
In ...
Canary and Crimson
Betwixt and between
Grey and Green
Verdance offsets the gloom
Vivid speaks to joy
Nestled on a rocky shore
Home and hearth
Friends and family
Small lives lived large
In nature's grandeur
On the edge of infinite
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About the photograph:
Vivid
Green Point Campground
Gros Morne National Park
Newfoundland, Canada
Taken during travels, 2023
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A reading from the blog post:
Vivid...
Spring tests winter's depths
Capricious audacity
Risks mortality
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About the photograph:
Early Bloom
Hinge Park Wetland
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada
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A reading from the blog post: (with songbirds accompanying)
Early ~ Pic and a Word Challenge: https://pixtowords.com/2024/02/19/early-pic-and-a-word-challenge-357/
From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/
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Detritus and treasures
The flotsam and jetsam
Of mes forgotten
And discarded
Wash ashore
There to be beachcombed
Collected and collated br />Discovering the pieces
For a me I can reconstruct
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About the photograph:
Detritus and treasures
Cannon Beach
Oregon, United States of America
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A reading from the blog post:
Discovery: https://pixtowords.com/2024/02/16/discovery/
From my blog Pix to Wor...
Grounded yet adrift
Betwixt and between
Tethered while untethered
Her beauty
Both fades and grows
Returning to the Earth
From which she once
Set out to sea
The cycle of life
Beautiful and cruel
Both to be found
In any single moment
This one nears the end
At which new life begins
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About the photograph:
Beautiful and Cruel
Marie Joseph
Nova Scotia, Canada
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A reading from the blog post:
Beautiful...
She burrows into his arms
Marvels again
At the sanctuary
Physical strength
In tranquil balance
With silky softness of spirit
Onshore breezes
Salt and sand flitter
Scents and sensations
Tingling
Everywhere
Especially her heart
As she nuzzles
Deeper
This embrace
Warm haven
From chill sea air
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About the photograph:
Burrowing Sand Fence
Basin Head Provincial Park
Prince Edward Island, Canada
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A rea...
Sundered fences
Leave me vulnerable
To intimacy
And possibility
So I shore them up
Defend against
Betrayals
And failure
Hoping all the while
Someone will breach them
Armed with no more
Than love and compassion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About the photograph:
Sundered Sand Fence
Basin Head Provincial Park
Prince Edward Island, Canada
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A reading from the blog post:
Fences: Pic and a Word Challenge #356: https://pixtowo...
The day-to-day
The ebb-and-flow
Cuts and layers
Excise and sediment
Build upon the I that was
Carve away the I that may
Remains the query
Who directs this knife and trowel
But the whim
Of tide and wave
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About the photograph:
The Whims of Tide and Wave
Mary's Point
Shepody National Wildlife Refuge
The Bay of Fundy
New Brunswick, Canada
Taken during travels, 2023
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A reading from the blog pos...
Sun burns white hot
Through dissipating fog
Sets wildflowers ablaze
With its morning rays
Sonic beacon rendered mute
Its clarion calls to clarity
Invited cerulean hues
A day begun
In dour temper
Manifests its beauty
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About the photograph:
Sun and Cerulean
Quaco Head – UNESCO Fundy Biosphere Reserve
St. Martins
New Brunswick, Canada
Taken during travels, 2023
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A reading, with commentary, from ...
Diffuse light in dispersing fog
Daisies, clover and buttercups
Stretch into morning
Pastel whispers from daylight skies
Beacon's warning
Smothered by the mist
So she howls
Into unknowable voids
Lest any run astray
To foul upon the stone
This wall between
The land and sea
While daisies, clover and buttercups
Tremble in the breeze
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About the photograph:
Beacon Amid the Daisies
Quaco Head – UNESCO Fundy Biosphere...
Stone breaks the surface
Of a void expanse
Empty to the edge of nothingness
The spare rock
Forms a peak atop a slope
Extending down I know not how deep
So I dive
Into the depths
To find the foundation
Of me
So that I might rise
Knowing the nature of self
And walk the featureless plain of me
Into being
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About the photograph:
Granite Islet
Southern Headland
Manita Mikano Trail
Pukaskwa National Park
Lake Superior
O...
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