Blue Dragonfly — Image by kenne
The Dragon-fly
Today I saw the dragon-fly
Come from the wells where he did lie.
An inner impulse rent the veil
Of his old husk: from head to tail
Came out clear plates of sapphire mail.
He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;
Thro’ crofts and pastures wet with dew
A living flash of light he flew.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Scarlet Skimmer Dragonfly — Computer Art by kenne
Nature photographer Mike Powell is a blogger I follow and is very knowledgeable when it comes to dragonflies.
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/2845011/posts/1607013067
kenne
“Wired” — Computer Painting by kenne
a poem is
a dragonfly
darting near water
looking
for a place to rest upon
filled with freshness.
a poem is
of flight down
by the creekside —
standing water.
a poem is. . .
a poem is
wired.
— kenne
Queen Butterfly — Computer Art by kenne
Butterfly
rhymes with dragonfly
and water with
life.
Butterflies
circle up and down
between my eyes.
Why was it
the butterfly
and not
the dragonfly?
Each carries the
inside of my soul.
— kenne
Flame Skimmer — Grunge Art by kenne
“So long as the sense of the observing subject remains,
there is the effort, however indirect, to control feeling from the outside,
which is resistance setting up turmoil in the stream.
Resistance disappears and the balancing process comes into full effect,
not by intention on the part of the subject,
but only as it is seen that the feeling of being the subject,
the ego, is itself part of the stream of experience
and does not stand outside it in a controlling position.”
— Alan Watts
Twisted Wire Landing — Computer Art by kenne
— kenne
Red-Veined Darter Dragonfly — Image by kenne
— Carl Sagan
Blue Dasher Dragonfly — Image by kenne
— kenne
— Horace
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Dragonfly Grange ‘n’ — Image by kenne
— from “Lines Lost Among Trees” by Billy Collins
