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Raven In The Storm   7 comments

Raven In the Storm — Image by kenne

The raven grips the crooked limb
as if the whole sky might slip away.

Clouds bruise the distance.

Wind tugs at every loose thing—
except this raven,
who has already made a pact
with the storm.

— kenne

Front Range Snow On the Catalinas   Leave a comment

Front Range Snow On the Catalinas — Image by kenne

Sun breaks over the Rincons,
throws gold sideways
onto Catalina snow.

Raven rides a thermal
rising from bare rock,
circle over circle—
energy borrowed
from sun,
stone,
air,
everything.

Nothing mystical—
just earth doing
what earth does.
And me,
lucky to stand in it. 

— kenne

Departure   2 comments

Raven Leaving Palm Tree — Image by kenne

“Departure”

A raven rests on fronded throne,
Where desert winds through palm have blown.
Its feathers ink against the sky,
A secret kept where shadows lie.

No caw, no cry, just silent grace,
It lifts into the sunlit space.
From tropic green to open blue,
It leaves the tree—and me—askew.

A parting like a whispered charm,
Dark wings retreating into calm.
And in its flight, the silence grew,
As if the palm now mourned it too.

Angry Raven   3 comments

Angry Raven — Image by kenne

Strong winds are blowing

Signaling a weather change

Clouds darken the skies.

— kenne

Raven In Flight   2 comments

Raven in Flight — Image by kenne

“Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

December 2011   3 comments

Raven In Snow Covered Pine On Mt. Lemmon (12/15/2011) — Image by kenne

Raven, The Largest Perching Bird   2 comments

Raven, The Largest Perching Bird — Image by kenne

Passeriform, also called passerine or perching bird, is any member of the largest order of birds
and the dominant avian group on Earth today. The passeriform birds are actual perching birds,
with four toes, three directed forward and one backward. The raven is the largest perching bird
with a wingspan of four-plus feet.

— kenne

Grand Canyon Raven   Leave a comment

Grand Canyon Raven (October 2021) — Image by kenne

Raven In A Winter Wonderland   3 comments

Raven In A Winter Wonderland — Image by kenne


Create the picture you wish to show
Relieve my mind before I blow.
Use my hand,
I’ll take the chance,
I trust you with my mind and limb
Sing to me your silent hymn
Sedate me with your loving trance,
Trace your world upon this pale land.

— from A Raven In The Snow by AemmaBella

Raven At Cienega Creek — Photo Essay   3 comments

Raven At Cienega Creek — Photo Essay by kenne

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore”   Leave a comment

The Raven — Photo-Artistry by kenne

  “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
    Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
    On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
 
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Raven On A Rock   Leave a comment

SCVN Weds Walk 08-01-12Raven On A Rock with Bearded penstemon Wildflowers — Image by kenne

 

Beware   2 comments

Raven-0470-art-2-72.jpgRaven — Photo-Artistry by kenne

. . . beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect . . .

— from The Genious of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski

Raven Lovebirds On Christmas Eve   2 comments

RavensRaven Lovebirds On Christmas Eve — Photo-Artistry by kenne

two ravens in a tree
on Christmas Eve
showing affection
bobbing heads in
silent communication
when with a quick nod
one flies off signaling
the other to follow —
contemplate the void
suddenly my eyes blear.

— kenne

Sunset March 16, 2017   Leave a comment

Sunset March 16, 2018DSC_1421 blogSunset March 16, 2017 — Image by kenne

The darkness begins
a raven flies by
against the gray sky,
golden sunset.

She reads inside
removed from 
the change of day,
not the first time.

Even so, I thought
of her body, dressed
but untouched,
without desire.

Goodbye to the raven
at twilight, exile
is not a vacation —
or is it?

— kenne