Quandary ...3

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To step out
from the comfort
of darkness
is to expose
my self to
the uncaring
harsh
selfish world.
And there
is the light outside
which they don't like
and so
they hide
they shield
they build edifices
and then hang
chandeliers.
Keep the light out
and bring lighting in.
I am privy to the ways
of the world
and I don't care anymore.

Quandary ...2

HelenKas.photosight.ru

Light plays with darkness
or is it the other way round?
I want to own the world
and loan my self -
Strange it does sound!
When I want to be left alone
There's always somebody
who wants to come closer
When I want to play 
with the world
a strange silence comes over
I need to learn
to listen to the silences
in my heart.

Quandary

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Not that I
don't know
my mind;
it's just that
I am not able
to make it up.
I could erase 
the shadows 
of my past
by simply lying
flat on the ground
or I could face
the heat by 
standing up
for myself
and opening up
to search and
scrutiny.
I am searching 
for that light.

Discovery ..2

ppjukam.photosight.ru


I feel like a vine
gently swaying
in the softest breeze
with my petit frame
adorned modestly
by a clear skin
covering tenderness
of limbs
and as I sway
a realisation
slowly dawns
of the femininity in me
- to be gentle with life
to whisper softly
the unbounded love
that fills up my heart
not splashing it
not overpowering
but to simply waft
in and out like
fresh air.

My world....

shakeSA.photosight.ru

Times there are 

when I need

to push away

concerns other 

than mine

when I am

my world 

and my self

with layers

peeled away

of appearances

pretences

paints and shimmer

To bare is to dare

To see is to be

To stop is to top

and to forgive self

is to live.

Solitude by Rocks....11

AISm.photosight.ru

Is Solitude Solid?
There's no room for
anything to enter,
thoughts chip away though
like the wind beating
at the rocky surface
hoping to make a mark
or a dent
Let the sun beat against
my raw skin
and I have the rocks
to lean on -
sure support through
ages
I will endure
the elements
but I continue to cherish
this great time with
the greatness of
contemplation upon
my self
Let the world wait
outside.

Solitude by Rocks 10

medvedeva_nika.photosight.ru

I am alone
but 
I don't feel alone.
Here
is the vastness of
the ocean
the omniscience of
the sun
the solidity of the
rock 
and the limitless sky
We are in silent
communication.
I tell them of
the ocean of emotions
the light that gleams 
from the recesses of the 
mind
and the firmness of my 
resolve
and they all whisper
the one secret into my ears
"Let it be"

Not all things....

igovoronco.photosight.ru

Not long ago
did I realise
that not all things
of this world
were needed
for me any more.
Ego bred envy
and happiness 
fed ego.
Love bought
betrayal and 
anger wrought
havoc.
Simplicity stood by 
me and I learnt
to carry it
everywhere.

The Original Act...

greeneyed.photosight.ru

To marvel at nature

in its process of

fruition

was the original act

of reason.

To call it the original sin

was the original folly

of mankind

which wished to put

the blame on

eve for all the mess

that men created

from their naked pursuit

of power over everything

except themselves.

A thing in the mind...

andrey196.photosight.ru

To gain strength
and counter force
I went to equal
men
in their pursuit of
brute strength
and work it
didn't.
They still saw
me the weaker
one
and so did I
and that was
it.
It was a thing
in the mind
that turned
and I saw
myself as
the stronger one
and not in opposition
but in step.
The mind clear
the body is clearer.

Solitude by Rocks........9

igovoronco.photosight.ru

In the light 
from above
I realise
the slippery ground
on which I stand.
But to move
there is only one
way
- step into swirling
waters.
Solitude was my rock
and there I bared
my soul to my self.
Now the light from above
reminds me
of the shadows
that chased me.
Was I truly alone
and open
and bare?

You and me.....4

david-foto.photosight.ru


It's now time to wait

for things to work 

their way up

for the wine to mature

I will wait

and be with my thoughts

and feelings

slowly they turn over

I remain quiet, watching

in silence their slow

dance of life

and in the end

life envelops them

and wraps up.

That's when I will open

my eyes and see

all of you.

You and me.......3

david-foto.photosight.ru

Well, what can I do

but to share the bounty

with all those who know

fine taste of life?

What I get is not mine

alone but the joy of sharing 

it with the world.

I need my world

to share what Nature

bestows upon me

That makes me feel

complete and fulfilled.

You and me....2

david-foto.photosight.ru

This rich vineyard of life

Grapes ripen for picking

Nature makes me feel so bountiful

I love this earth, the vines

the leaves and the grapes

They never turn their back

on me

You and me.....1

david-foto.photosight.ru


Telling you
that I need you
makes me look
weak in front
of you.
And I don't want
to appear strong
in whatever way.
I am not complete 
unless I give up
all of myself
then I think not
of what remains.
I still remain
in that wonderful
unity which is 
not so distant now.
If you don't come
I may just wait
and then just 
trun to the other side.

This time too....

maugluk.photosight.ru

Well I know
this time too
shall pass
All that once 
held firm
will loosen
as it must.
Things will
look different
and life will
seem more
placid than what
it seems now
from the midstream
I will have moved
ashore, assured
Yet I must live
this moment
and hear that 
throb and that
pounding of the 
heart and be 
one with it and
let it be.

Edifices

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Something you cherish

and want to protect

and preserve

in this strong edifice;

Remember it will

outlast you

and be a burden

to your successors.

So think of what you 

are trying to protect.

Everything goes down

the pipe like rainwater;

every cup that you fill 

is meant to be 

emptied.

The flesh that is taut

today will hang

loose tomorrow.

So respect the freedom

that every moment

brings with it

and fly with it.

Discovery...1

geneoryx.photosight.ru

When you let
your guard down
your defences aside
your pretences flung away
you discover not
what you knew all along
but you discover
that you can face
the truth
for you are the 
truth of 
that moment
and the world
of that moment
and the joy
of that moment.
Discovery
is the act
of owning
up the beauty
of every moment.

What use luxuries?

rzachar.photosight.ru

Things remain the same
Meanings have changed
Mind is tired of playing
games with itself
playing hide and seek
Luxuries meant
to spin illusion
of well-being when
faced with naked
truth that Love
is for self
and Passion for 
the flesh.
Now it's so much
more fulfilling
to be at the source
of all images
and just to watch
pain dissolving
and names melting
into pure nothingness.

Surprised

maugluk.photosight.ru

What supports 
the support 
of life?
The soft murmur 
of the flowing water
or the hard
riverbed smoothened
by flows of centuries?
It's hard to tell.
The strong pillars 
of this edifice
come from the earth
that was scented
by the petals
of the faded flowers.
The spirit that toiled
to make the edifice
was enlivened by
the fragrance of beauty.
What supports life
is the life that lives 
in the life.

Work of art

shibinanadegda.photosight.ru

What's Art but
an expression 
of one's deepest 
yearnings?
Nature yearns 
for oneness
with its creation
and so splashes
itself all over
without a plan
and envelops me
in its beauty.
And here I am 
expressing myself
in muted notes
and muffled voices
and guarded steps
my deepest desire to
give birth to
all that is beauty
and truth
and strength. 

Humbling

A-Stisovyak.photosight.ru

It's the one that made
things hard and soft
living and inanimate
light and darkness
To be in its presence
every moment
is so humbling
as i feel so soft 
and tender inside
when I explore 
all that I am
in my flesh and blood
and in my awareness of
all that lies here 
and now
and beyond the hard 
rocks and the
beauty of sun's rays
that can be soft and warm
and also searing 
and scorching.
It's so humbling
to realise that
I too can be soft 
and yet strong.

Tied up in

annieparfi.photosight.ru

Not knowing when
you get tied up
in shadows of 
your glorious past
Every sinew of your success
turns into a rope
that ties you up
Every line of aesthetics
becomes 
anaesthesia to the present
Every gesture
that spoke of grace
now arrests the throb
of pain
Success turns
narcissistic 
before you know
what hit you.

Beyond time....2

s_sot.photosight.ru

I am with this moment
living it fully
amidst the noise and the din
of everyday living
breathing slowly
feeling every muscle
taking the breeze on my bare back
it caresses the nape of my neck
sensuously
and then suddenly
my mind goes back
to all those
sensuous touches
and
living
of the moment
slips out of
my hand
and they say -
Sands of Time.

Aplenty....7

nehoroshy.photosight.ru

Who can fathom
nature's secrets -
Rain forests
in one continent and
deserts stretch
across another!

I bask in her glory

for what she has blessed me 

with

My empathy ran 

far and wide

and got the better of me

in hiding Nature's gifts.

Before it was late

I saw

Nature did not 

hide its 

gifts.

Fullness...3

AISm.photosight.ru

Life delicate
is not life fragile
Life tender
is also 
Life full
of doubts
and delights.
Doubts also
walk with
certainty of 
step and earth
leaving open
all possibilities
- you may not reach
- digress
- return
- make a new home
Just as I am here
wondering 
if it is wise
to postpone
living my own
life.

A Place in the Sun

AISm.photosight.ru

A place in the Sun

is not easy

to keep

and the Sun

never fails to 

remind

you that soon

enough

you are to yield

it to the newer order

and fade away.

Isn't it good

to fade away 

and be remembered

than to hang on

haggardly

in spite

of cold stares

that wait to

push you over 

the brink

into the abyss of oblivion?

Your place in the sun

is in the heart 

of your soul.

Acceptance ....lll

dimasscorpio.photosight.ru

If it is coldness, so be it
if darkness, welcome it.
I won't soothe myself
saying
there will be warmth
and there will be
light;
I accept what life
presents me with
and stay with it
- something happened
and the warmth went out;
- something blew and
light went out.
I stopped offering
and seeing.
It is okay not to
offer sometimes
not to see sometimes.
I am not here to whip
myself or
flog others.
These things happen
and I must respect them.
Accept them.

Acceptance...ll

dimasscorpio.photosight.ru

Life is to live
not to repent
not to regret
I have stomached it all
- the rejections
- departures
- disappointments
There are many things 
I must attend to -
Living at hand
with relations
and responsibilities
Loving those
around me
is to honour life
and accept myself.

Colours of Life....1

sergtimos.photosight.ru

There are times
when nature
decides for me
what I should 
think, feel and do;
So it is today
as I gladly accept
all colours round me
knowing well
those are resident 
within me
and resplendent too.
Some ordinary and
familiar
others appear
once in a while
and attract mightily
Both have a place in me
and me a place in them
as I fix my gaze on them
I am transfixed becoming 
inseparable from them
the sheer beauty of being one
with Nature!!

Confront.....4

OBLAP.photosight.ru

I was in two minds
like always
and like everyone else
I guess.
One said
forget it 
it is no use
confronting 
someone you no longer
want to relate to 
and the other said
it isn't for the sake
of the other but
for your own sake.
You need to know 
where you stand and
what stops you
from moving ahead
and you have notions
of yourself and
of fairness 
of justice
that you need to test
and become whole
once again.  So
confront you must.
And so here I am
to tell you 
that time it is for me
to call it a day
with you 
for we no longer 
walk the same path
walk in step
and walk toward
the same goal.
The time we spent 
together
was a great time
and then something
changed not in us
but between us.
It's no use trying 
to find out.
So each goes own way
and it is okay
and I will be okay
and I hope you too.
That's about it
and that's all.

Holding on

harmonicus.photosight.ru

They said
let go
leave it
move on;
thorn pierced 
your sole
and then you
took it out
and threw away
long back.
So think not 
of it,
Don't hold on to it
Don't look for a thorn
every time you step out
Well, yes, I should do that.
But the pain stabs
and I can't forget
nor do I forget my courage
in holding firm
and pulling things out
and moving on.
i hold on to
myself.

There was Light .....lll

abazali.photosight.ru


It took me time
to emerge
from the darkness
within
I had made it
my world
to cover myself
in darkness.
But then my thoughts
my desires
my passion 
all dark became.
In them I melted
to become
a statue of wax
that needed 
neither light nor air.
A ray of light came
from nowhere and I 
opened my eyes
and there was Light
again.

Delving...2

s-o-l-o-m-o-n.photosight.ru

The more I know
the more the mysteries grow
The more I bare
the more I realise lies hidden
The darker the shadows get
the brighter is the glimmer of hope
Alone in my nakedness
I gather all pain and joy of the world
I know there is a bottom
to all memories pushed down
down the ages
I delve not in the hope
of unearthing gems
I enter to feel the warmth
that lies along
all the way down
the depths of emotion.

The Shape...3

chertady.photosight.ru

When I feel light
there's a spring 
in my step
a stirring in my soul
Then I know not
what possesses me
but my limbs are lithe
and my spirit
has spright
and my whole
body breaks
into a dance 
of the divine
beyond all music
and all symphony.

Small is Beautiful

nehoroshy.photosight.ru

Small though you are
O little leaf
and tender too,
you take in the light
of the Bright Sun - 
the one and only 
in this galaxy
to give Light!
And you are the one
to silently turn 
it into food
that nurtures 
the tree and fruit
that contains 
the life of future
generations!
And in time
you fulfil your duty
and turn yellow 
and fade silently
to await fall
and even then
you merge into the 
holy of the earth
to nourish the soil
yet again.
How lovely is your
transitory existence
exuding love
all the while
everywhere!
Oh my sweet little
Leaf of beauty!

The Shape .....2

gogl.photosight.ru


There is a sense
of beauty
but it's not 
beauty
in the painted
Wallflowers
There is art 
and there 
is living
To breathe 
life into
art
I need to discover
beauty
inside me
in every cell
every spot of flesh
every curve
of my limbs 
and every thought
every sensation
every act of mine
and I wait
patiently
for the divine.

The shape

eduard067.photosight.ru

There is a shape
to things
even in their
shapelessness
in the turns
and twists
in the disorderly
growth
and there 
is shapelessness
in my shapely
body
when my mind 
is elsewhere
trying to escape
the tyranny of
order and custom
and obligations
and I yearn 
to find my 
shapelessness.

No Push over

artnu-matveev.photosight.ru

Pushed to the wall
Stripped of cover
I am no push over.
Tired, I will gather
my wits
my breath
and move
out of the four walls
of your stupid beliefs
of what I can
and cannot do
of who I am
and am not.
I fling all
those figments
of your imagination
out the window
and will make 
my path
surely.

Confront.....3

artnu-malveev.photosight.ru

All your pretences
come and fall
at my feet here:
your religions
your power plays
your mighty arms
and machines
your arts and
sciences
your strength and
your vulnerability
all ultimately find
salvation
when you surrender
your small little ego
at the altar of
all creation.
Mighty are your myths
simply as
silly are your sinews.

Moving on....3

sany59.photosight.ru

Hesitation
there is 
to move
leaving behind
familiar fields
looking into
dusky future
and there is 
hope of
meeting my soul
strumming at chords
of soulful music
and singing
those tunes
that travel far
into the night
and pluck the stars

Opening up ....2

EIgor.photosight.ru

I open up
after years
to dump
all the junk
I collected 
believing it 
to be gold.
It is good
to be emptying
and it is great
to be empty
of all pretence
to feel light
to take in light
and to be a light
unto oneself.

Faith.....3

S_Zot.photosight.ru

Tree of life
stands tall
roots exposed
yet in place
Washed ashore
to dry safety
I will seek
out the springs
that course
through veins
in my earth
for I am 
the fruit
the root
the leaf 
and the life
 of this great Tree.

Faith......2

mtoleran.photosight.ru

Down on the knees
but not out on a limb
and certainly
not out of my depth
I know there is
light 
in my eyes
as in the skies
and fire that
burns softly
just as the soft sand 
of shore
and 
that's my strength
to bank on.

Faith......1

mtoleran.photosight.ru

In times
things go shelter-skelter
as they would;
storms throw 
you up and
waves toss you
about,
No place
to call your own,
life reduced
to lifeless heap,
holding together
a daily struggle,
No shore in sight,
then you look up
to the sky,
it is there
to keep your faith
and then you hit
the sand
and 
breathe....
...simply.

Opening up...1

fotovista.photosight.ru

To be open 

is to receive

with joy

to take 

what you want

to let it flow

in your veins

and make it

your own

and be grateful

to be blessed

with the gift 

of turning 

everything into

life

Symphony

wadimwadim.photosight.ru

Life may be a symphony
but it is there
also in a single note.
Life is a sculpture
but it rises
also in a single gesture
Life is a stream
but is flows
also in a single drop
Life is this world
but it sings
also from your
heart to mine
Life is a beauty 
of the whole
but it is there
also in the soft curve
of the thigh.

Vastmess....2

womandream75.photosight.ru

Sandy softness
and Sunny warmth
- I am aroused
by the passion 
to be limitless
vast
infinite
taking all my flesh
to the spirit of the sky
beyond clouds
into the cosmic void
-
with you
or all
by myself?

Beauty of flowering.......6

eashaburova.photosight.ru

Beauty takes you;
when it does
go with it
into a trance
that transports
you into 
the realm beyond
in which
thoughts have no place
and everything
is only being
pure, unsullied!

Beauty of flowering......5

eashaburova.photosight.ru

Beauty talks?
yes, it does
but in whispers
and its words waft away
leaving behind
only fragrance
that you can't catch
Let it fill your heart 
and let it talk
with simply its throbs.