Cover Photo by Mark R. Day

Monday, February 20, 2012

Ermine and Blue Illumination

 


Photo's by Mark R. Day, taken with a Cannon Power Shot SX100IS on 2-20-2012 at approx 7:18 am.  Copyright by Mark R. Day 2-20-2012, all right reserved

Poem "Feeling Caged by Life"

Life is like a cage; sometimes setting limits on our liberty of movement in the world at large and at other times completely cutting us off from the aspirations of our hearts and minds.

Life's cage can be only be conquered when we possess the proper key and cast the door wide open, but what kind of key can unlock a life . . . . . . . .

Life itself is the key to freedom and liberty as only by living, loving and learning can we possess the knowledge which  opens the door.

Therefore live inquisitively, live generously, live lovingly and be free.



Written by Mark R. Day, 2-20-2012.  Copyritght by Mark R. Day 2-20-2012, all rights reserved

Nature's snowcone


This photo placed on the Central Virginia Journal site with the permission of the photographer Mr. Alan Faircloth


Photo by Mr. Alan Faircloth, taken on 20 February 2012, copyright by Alan Faircloth, all rights reserved 2/20/2012

Monday, February 13, 2012

Poem: "Seeking For Evocative Thoughts While Walking in the Garden"

Picture a garden, diverse, unconventional and lush with the wonders of  life.
Walk into this garden where Hibiscus is mixed with Heliopsis and Honeysuckle.
An abundance unsurpassed, a beauty seldom seen, and your senses brought to life.

Erotic and Erratic the vacillating smells arouse you and draw you deeper . . .
 . . . . . deeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . deeper into the garden. Unexpectedly you realize that
the whimsicality and eccentricity of the garden have enchanted your very soul.

How would you proceed?

Would you press forward and explore the random paths and twisting alleys, which
branch outward from the central path?

In a poets mind there is but one choice; to take the path less worn, and to
journey through the garden in anticipation of wondrous discovery at every turn.
For only by traveling such a path can you find the random evocative and simple truth.
Then inspired by our revelations we can find new understanding of this amazing world. 

It is this which makes us pause

It is this which makes us grow


You must risk all; to find the answers





Written by Mark R. Day 13 February 2012, copyright Mark R. Day, all rights reserved