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Eider's Gift

 

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Eider's Gift 

Into a galaxy of water droplets

Shaking off intergenerational fears

A sunlit, pink hue is cast

 

PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2021

Merganser's Presence

 

Merganser's Presence

Merganser's Presence

 

Eyes looking out from green velvet...

Snowy white heart feathers

Proud red beak

Ballet wings opening

to the inner concert.

 

PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2021

 

 

Protection

 

Protection

 

Protection

Protection in the crook of your alabaster wing

Protection in the stillness of the water droplets

on your iridescent green feathers

Protection in the sunlight shining on your faces

so close to one another

Protection in the visible and invisible

connections of light, water, stones and the air of your contentment.

 

PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2021

Loving Kindness

Loving Kindness

 

Loving Kindness

 

Searching eyes, open to golden ripples

Ears listening, fur glistening

Tasting sunrise blue,

Traveling lake water,

Playing the soul's music

 

PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright 2021

 

Great Egret

GREAT EGRET

 

Great Egret

 

Destination sky

Purity of heart leading

Inspires fairytales

 

PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright 2020

Redpoll

REDPOLL

                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                Redpoll

 

Bowing to sunlight

 Seeds within reach

One pointed focus

 

PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020

Sacred Space

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Sacred Space

 

Inside gray feathers

Elixir of emptiness

The Holy Spirit

 

PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020

Golden Essence

Golden Essence

 

Golden Essence

Exhilaration ~

Lift the petals of our souls

Your beauty is food

PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020

Alive and More Alive

Alive and More Alive

 

Alive and More Alive

 

Love looks many ways

as it dives ever deeper

and comes up refreshed

 

PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020

Haiku Map

Haiku Map

 

Haiku Map

 

Veins mark the travel

raindrops pause for a moment

cobwebs show the path

 

PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © 2020

Breath

Breath

 

Breath

If I breathe into you

and you breathe into me

we can hold our lives together with pine sap

We can feel the strength in muskrats, blue jays and Baltimore Orioles

We can pour tart cherry juice over vegan yogurt for breakfast 

We can send PhotoPoem cards to young people who are loosing their hold on this world going up in flames, disease and corruption 

We can keep washing our bodies and hair and cleaning our houses

We can keep practicing the movements of peace

We can keep going on scooter rides along the Kennebec River

and sitting in chairs way too big for vertically challenged people

We can keep making chocolate tofu pudding with black berries on top

We can rise with the sun and run in the moonlight

and be just crazy and healthy enough

to tilt the world a little bit.

 

PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020

 

 

Subtle

 

Subtle

Subtle

Crack open the seeds

of pomegranate stories...

their juice is subtle.

PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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