As it fell from my
hands into the river,
my second-rate, semi-waterproof
camera was drowning.
I tried to give it mouth-to-
mouth resuscitation
but then received a
massive jolt of electricity
into my flared chops.
As I remained passed-out
on the riverbank,
sweet images of beautiful flowers
crawled in my head
and I smiled,
realizing that a camera
was no longer needed.
Wildflowers and Soldier Beetle… Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog 
I love the camera poem.
Thanks much, Sherry! Now i have to go out an buy a new camera! 🙂
Perhaps a refurb like the old one?
I agree with Sherry. :))
Thank you, Susan! Read my reply to Sherry. 🙂
This is hilarious and profound all at the same time. 🙂
That’s what i was aiming for (with my semi-waterproof camera)! 🙂
🙂
Love it.
Now, Francis, i’ll have to shop for a new camera. 😉
So you really did drop it?
If you still think that i did, i have some swamp land in the Himalayas to sell you! 🙂
wonderful poem, Thomas. Have a nice day, regards Mitza
Thank you, Mitza! Have a nice day! I would have a nice day if I only had a dry, working camera. 😉
Keep watching Colbert! 🙂
Hope your camera will work again. I am watching Colbert daily, I love him:)
What can I say, I agree with these comments.
Thanks, Ken! Watch out for your camera; they pack a lot of juice! 🙂
So I take it that the flowers gave you mouth-to-mouth as the camera looked on helplessly??? 😛 😀 😛
Ha! 🙂 How do you thank a wildflower?! (Send it a bouquet of roses?!) 🙂
LMBO!!! 😀 😛 😀
So that’s one way of cleaning it Tom.
Enjoyed the poem.
Yes! Most people do not realize the secret that a water-logged camera is clean inside and out! 🙂
Oh for the days of mechanical film cameras. I had my Olympus OM1, 50mm and 24mm lenses submerged in Georgian Bay for 15 minutes. I dried them out in an oven set to the lowest temperature
Wow! Stay dry and don’t microwave your next modern camera! 🙂
I don’t know what happened but my comment sent before I had fini it. After drying out the equipment in the oven I was using it the next day. That was in 1985, the camera was already 9 years old and had been dropped into a pit box at Le Mans 3 years previously. I still have the camera.
Amazing camera that is like a cat with 9 lives! 🙂
Ah heck, why not just jump in with the camera and have a nice little frolic?
I’m smiling but not too much! 🙂 I almost drowned in our river once when the pier collapsed in the spring while i was installing it. I tried to stand on the bank underwater to push myself up but it was so steep there was no bank. When i finally came up the pier had rectified itself and there was no air to get. This is no joke; it happened!
That would be no fun at all!
Delightful fron the title right to the last line 😊
Thanks so much, Ana! Mission accomplished! 🙂
This was clever Tom. The yellow flower sure stands out in this picture, even showing off its little friend. 🙂
Thanks very much, Linda! 🙂 It was fun to write!
Read what i wrote to Eilene.
Wow! I just read your reply to Eilene. That would be scary for anyone, and I don’t know how to swim, so even scarier for me. There are so many drownings every Summer here in Michigan and this morning the news reported that the body of a kayaker, who has been missing almost two years, was located … two years! His companion saw him go underwater, so they would have assumed he never made it, but, as time went on and no body was found, I suspect there was always that niggling question in their mind of did he survive and had amnesia, started life anew with a new identity? And then there is the duck boat incident in Missouri – also so scary and sad.
Very entertaining!
Working around the water as I do, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched screwdrivers, radios, and so on go into the water. That moment between “oops!” and “dang” can seem interminable — and it’s a feeling that’s as easy to recall as the image of the dropped object.
Gorgeous image!