A selection of poems and photographs.

1. Poems
in Words
and Images
selected by diane cordell
“Words everywhere” by din bcn http://www.flickr.com/photos/din_bcn/2349889836/

2. “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and
exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.” -Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
by jmctee http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmctee/5436124665/in/photostream/

3. “I stand between the past and the pursuing,
Between the dream'd of deed and the undone,
With all the earth on tiptoe for the doing,
And breathless for the start-word of the sun...”
-Theophilus Marzials, Spring
“window” by feeb http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionab/3469820394/

4. “There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.”
-T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
“Hazy Clock” by Justin Shearer http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinshearer/87636385/

5. “We are the music-makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.”
-Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Ode
“Silver gleam” by dmcordell http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5497877225/

6. “I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
-Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
“bird wing” by BotheredByBees http://www.flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees/1434856833/

7. “Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
-Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by dmcordell http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5080893167/

8. “What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
-Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid
“In the woods near Butler Pond” by dmcordell http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcordell/5172013667/

9. “White seeds are floating
Out of my burst pod.
What power had I
Before I learned to yield?
Shatter me, great wind:
I shall possess the field.”
-Richard Wilbur, A Milkweed
“Milkweed” by dmcordell http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcordell/3981094291/

10. “Biltmore Gold: An Arc” by cobalt123 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/186684347/

11. “I know she is beautiful forever, and lives
In a beautiful house, far away.
She called my name once.
I didn't even know she knew it.”
-Robert Penn Warren, True Love
“Reflection of a heart” by Nganguyen http://www.flickr.com/photos/nganguyen/2508746078/

12. “O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
-William Butler Yeats, Among School Children
“Dancing” by jaimebisbal http://www.flickr.com/photos/elbalsamo/3651568332/

13. “But stars were with me most of all.
I heard them flame and break and fall.
Their excellent array, their free
Encounter with Eternity...”
-Fanny Stearns Davis, Profits
Star Cluster NGC 290 European Space Agency & NASA http://www.hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2006017c/

14. “I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide”
-Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry
“Transparencies” by coolmonfrere http://www.flickr.com/photos/seibi/371318148/

15. seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here
-e. e. cummings, seeker of truth
“The end of the path along Redhill/Storeton” by jimmedia http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmediaart/493752968/

16. Diane Cordell
Journeys
http://dmcordell.blogspot.com/