Saturday, August 02, 2025

I keep the yesterdays

for  the sake of  this photo 
every moment is surrender 
for I am eager and take too
many--yet each avid echo
                                         remains and ruins
                                         edits and evades 
                                        all capture while
                                        I,  a wakeful and
                                        fading hunter 
unbearably full of bravado 
persist--if only I could focus 
on edging meaning with light
I'd see how visions can return
                                        in the breaks
                                        from seeing--
                                        stitching up 
                                        our aging nows 
                                       and aching forevers  
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Pic: Yes, I did take way too many photos of the sunset yesterday. 

5 comments:

Lisa's Yarns said...

Another gorgeous poem from you!!

Nicole said...

Oooh beautiful poem, beautiful picture!

Gillian said...

Nice.

StephLove said...

Do you remember back when we had to think about how many pictures to take because there were only so many shots on a roll and how when you'd get an extra one it would feel like such bonus?

Jeanie said...

You have such a way with language, Maya. It expresses so very much!

I keep the yesterdays

for  the sake of  this photo  every moment is surrender  for I am eager and take too many--yet each avid echo                               ...