Creating the Divine

Smoke and Drama, Rocky Mountains, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

The beauty
Of existence
Seems not always
Beautiful

I discover the divine
Through smoke haze
Muted tones
And hidden features

Seek the clarity
Beneath the murk
Colourless moments
Can be vivid

I remind myself
Create the divine
From the apparent
Mundane

Called Home
Sunset
Jasper Skytram
Jaspter
Jasper National Park
Alberta, Canada

Taken during travels, 2017

Undramatic Smoke, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

This is the original photograph before post processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.

This poem riffs on the themes explored by today’s first poem, Called Home, and the commentary accompanying it.

NaPoWriMo 2020
Day Thirty; Poem Two
Sixty poems total (Yay!)

#stayhome #washyourhands #wearamask #writepoetry

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Jill Crainshaw on May 1, 2020 at 4:19 am
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Congrats on the 60 poems during this poetry-writing blitz month! I managed 30–some not too bad, others? Well, I celebrate the discipline of writing everyday!

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  Patrick Jennings on May 2, 2020 at 7:52 am
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  Thanks Jill! And congratulations to you too! (And anyone else who completed the challenge, or gave it their best shot.)
  
  Some days were a bit hard to keep the pace going. (I’m sure you had a similar experience!) To be perfectly honest, I “borrowed” a poem from a day on which I’d written three and applied it a couple days later for a day on which I only managed one — though, that one poem was around 2,000 words long. 😉
  
  Did you post your poems anywhere? I don’t see them on the page your profile links to.
  
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    Jill Crainshaw on May 2, 2020 at 8:52 am
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    Yes, I found it hard to keep the pace going! That’s a lot of creativity to generate 🙂
    
    My poetry is on a separate blog—drdeacondog.com. I started that blog primarily for some of my spiritual reflections and then it morphed into poetry. The blog this profile links to is new this week. I wanted to do some writing unrelated to the poetry and spirituality stuff at the other site. I haven’t figured out how the two work together (or not) in WordPress, lol.
    
    I want to keep the writing energy going—maybe at a bit slower pace. Do you have a plan for that for yourself?
    
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Waruni on May 1, 2020 at 8:50 am
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Both the image and the poem are very inspiring . The beauty and ugly are not really existing at all …

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  Patrick Jennings on May 2, 2020 at 7:46 am
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  <smile> Thank you. I’m glad this post inspires you. 🙂
  
  Mmmmm, yes I agree about beauty and ugliness.
  
  I think also, in another sense, beauty and ugliness are created in our own minds and so are a reflection of our own inner condition, not of the objects or experiences we perceive.
  
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Manja Mexi Mexcessive on May 1, 2020 at 1:58 pm
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Uuuu, sixty! 🙂 I realise more and more that beautiful or ugly is simply a matter of light.

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  Patrick Jennings on May 2, 2020 at 8:07 am
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  Yay! You! Thirty! Yay! 🙂
  
  Mmmm… see my comment above. Perhaps simply a matter of inner light? 😉 ❤
  
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    Manja Mexi Mexcessive on May 2, 2020 at 12:45 pm
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    Yes, I did all thirty. 🙂 Quite tired now. Well, inner light too but no matter how much I shine, I cannot pretend to emit that golden light that only Italy can give. 😉
    
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