Orchid Impression

Orchid

An orchid, which one finds in nature,

cannot be reproduced by mere humans,

 

 

except perhaps as an interpretation…

but if such a thing were possible,

it could only be as beautiful

as one's imagination would be able to make it so.

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Notes:  Imaginary Garden with Real Toads provided a prompt of writing about man and nature - and the relationship between the two.  For once, I didn't use poetic form, but just wrote something kind of free verse-ish.  The first picture was of some naturally beautiful orchids which I photographed at the Philadelphia Flower Show. (It was totally fabulous!)  Now, granted, by the act of photographing a flower (or anything, for that matter) one ends up adding a human element.  But for the first in this case, it is only of the plant.  What's my point?  Because the second picture, to add a definite man-made touch, was 'filtered' in PhotoShop so that the picture looks more like a drawing or a painting than the genuine article.

Stuck in the Cosmos

Image courtesy of funkyjeff77

Big Tent Poetry's prompt was all about being stuck somewhere (literally or figuratively.)  The March Challenge wanted to see work on the topic of the cosmos.  Here's both in one short but sweet Rime Royal - and just so you know - I am celebrating the joy of imagination that lives in all of us.

Cosmos in Color

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” ~Carl Sagan

How unutterably dull the world would be

if we had to live in that world with a lack

of imagery, vision, dreamscape and esprit,

in a place that at once is gray, white and black

but no cobalt or fuchsia.  Taken aback

we would be, sans vibrant improvisation…

as if stranded without imagination.

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Have a terrific weekend!  March 20th is the first day of Spring - so enjoy!