These old shoes
finished with hopscotching
on colorful sidewalks
and have put red and blue marbles
and jump-ropes into cessation
These wrinkled hands
interred their baseball bats and ping pong balls
deep into the cobwebbed past
and forgot about sweet kites soaring
amongst the bluest of skies
Old,impaired eyes
traded the joy of simple flower-filled days
for the complexity of money
while they finished with oak trees
and became buried in paperwork
Enjoying the Flowers (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017
Enjoying the Flowers (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2017
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My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
I have a number of interesting hobbies, such as fossil collecting, sport-kite flying, 3D and 2D close-up photography, holography, and pets. Most of all, I am into holistic self-awareness, spontaneous insight, unconventional observation/direct perception, mindfulness, meditation, world peace, non-fragmentation, population control, vegetarianism, and green energy.
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Thank you, Sylvia! 🙂
Interesting Tom. I put away all those childhood things myself. Do not wish to fall and break a leg. Lol Loved your perfect photo of the ant.
I’m, at 65, still chasing bugs, keeping tropical fish, and flying kites (stunt kites now). I don’t fly kites as much as i did a few years ago… but still fly them now and then. 🙂
Sounds like fun. I have not flown a kite for 12 years. There must still be part of the kid in you.
just wonderful, Thomas. Have a nice day, regards Mitza
Many thanks, Mitza! Best of luck with your wonderful house-hunting endeavor! 🙂
Thanks a lot, Thomas, for your good wishes, regards Mitza
Amazing picture! You have a magical eyes Tom!
Thank you, Marcela! Lasik eye surgery sure helps! 🙂
Terrific macro, Tom…love the colour of the ant.
Thank you, Karen! This was taken at Perry Farm, a wonderful park-nature-preserve that offers free admittance to the public. It’s a most magical place! 🙂
Wonderful photos and words!
Many thanks! Hopefully, my words sometimes have more depth than do the pictures. 🙂
I really like your poem. While reading it, I’m thinking, I’ll still do all of those things! It would be sad indeed to put away all youthful things: what’s wrong with being young at heart?
My skipping rope is in the kitchen and when my knees permit, I still skip! ( Very good for the heart and lungs!)
And what an amazing photo of the red ant! I didn’t know there were any like this. 🙂
So good, Scifi, that you skip rope still! 🙂 It is very good exercise! So is stunt kite flying which i do (for the arms and legs).
Thanks about the ant. That species of ant is very diminutive (ant-wise).
Nice ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank you! 🙂
Wonderful picture! I found myself working from the outside inwards, so didn’t obviously see what it was at first!
Lovely poetry and really creative macro photography ~ thanks ^_^
Great words, great sentiments, cool photo but I hate insects, especially ants & spiders.