to be an observer
is more than a mere o
pening of the eyes–
you must vanish from the sight
of what you see, become
an immersion, a current
consumed by the between,
inside its invisible
core of light
Brendan at earthweal gave us some photos to work with for our poems this week. I chose the photo above, although the other ones are still on my mind.
K. 
very powerful, Kerfe…
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Thanks David.
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Well stated Kerfe. To really see, we need surrender our one perspective, adopt another. Your painting too, it did that.
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Thanks Neil.
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What a wonderful photo! And your ‘o’ poem fits it perfectly, that ‘o’ of light caught in the tree branches.
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Thanks Jane. Hard to take a bad photo of a tree, but this is magical.
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It is. I never remember to look up this prompt. I might try it tomorrow.
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You should! There are quite a few good photos.
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I’ll try!
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Beautifully done. Love your art, too.
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Thanks Sherry.
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The art usually eclipses the poem (because I love the art) but this one is so startling and so very perceptive that I’m knocked down! Wow!
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Thanks Muri. I try to give them equal weight…glad this one worked for you.
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It’s so easy to forget that core of light during dark times. Your poem is a welcome reminder!
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Thanks Ingrid.
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On thing about ekprhasis challenges is the too often poems are comments upon images rather than interesting tangents of light with eclispe their original — immersed, as you say. But then you have the master eye and vocabulary for it!
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Thanks Brendan. I do lots of ekphrastic challenges as well as working with my own art. The words and images should always enlarge each other, rather than repeat.
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A wonderful photo–and your “o”–beautifully expressed.
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Thanks Merril. We all need those “o” moments.
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Yes, indeed!
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“you must vanish from the sight/of what you see..” And how hard that erasure of self can be. We always seem to drag along the baggage of a personal slanted perspective which makes the lens fuzzy. Not so here, where all is illumination. I love the echo of colors repeating in photo and artwork as well–as always, seamless work, K.
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Thanks–it’s such an evocative photo. The natural world is easy to immerse yourself in–the problem is we so seldom take the time to even look at it. Perhaps that’s what the arts do for us–help us to get outside ourselves every once in awhile.
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Interesting concept, vanishing from the sight of that which we are viewing. Observer, observed, process of observing! If we dissappear is there any one left to ‘see’? and is it important? Perhaps not seeing and just being is preferable? Food for thought that’s for sure.
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Thanks Paul. Now you’ve made me consider my words again too!
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Two way street huh 🙏
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Exactly.
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Excellent wording for becoming one with what is observed or photographed, for just a brief moment. To forget oneself and be absorbed by the Other.
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We all need those moments. Thanks Olga.
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