Eider's Gift
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
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
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 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
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
Destination sky
Purity of heart leading
Inspires fairytales
PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright 2020
Redpoll
Bowing to sunlight
Seeds within reach
One pointed focus
PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020
Sacred Space
Inside gray feathers
Elixir of emptiness
The Holy Spirit
PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020
Golden Essence
Exhilaration ~
Lift the petals of our souls
Your beauty is food
PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright © 2020
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
Veins mark the travel
raindrops pause for a moment
cobwebs show the path
PhotoHaiku by Akiba & Maryam Mermey © 2020
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
Crack open the seeds
of pomegranate stories...
their juice is subtle.
PhotoPoem by Akiba & Maryam Mermey copyright 2020