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Parker
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0 posted 2018-03-08 10:17 PM


A Photograph Remaining

I saw you standing
A silhouette of silvered wax
Silent in the window watching
Mournful eyes of gray dew
A photograph of black and winter hues

What draws you to this light?
Is there comfort in these silver tendrils?
Like a blanket from a dusty gray attic
Warm as the wax in a mournful candle
A gray photograph on your window mantle

The waning moon is not yet gone
I know you wait as the shadows lengthen
Your silhouette hardly a feathers weight leaning
And you remain hidden until this gray returning
And in my heart I watch a photograph remaining

James Parker Haley

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Bluesy Socrateaser
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1 posted 2018-03-08 10:32 PM


"Warm as the wax in a mournful candle"

The flickerness of time.

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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2 posted 2018-03-09 05:00 AM


Parker,
this is awesome and haunting! Love it! ~L

Parker
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3 posted 2018-03-23 06:15 PM


I was inspired by a photograph with a background image of a person just like a ghost image. i try to take from different thing to inspire my muse. thanks for the replaies.

parker

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