Magic Marker and Oil Painting — Image by kenne
Sunrise Over the Catalinas
Magic marker lines bleed into oil—
the desert never holds still long enough
to be captured clean.
Cactus spines catch first light,
ocotillo arms rise like prayers
half-drunk on morning air.
The mountains smolder pink and gold,
a slow ignition of everything I love—
wildness, solitude,
the stubborn ache of beauty
that doesn’t give a damn
whether I’m watching or not.
Sonoran Sunrise Over The Rincon Mountains — Image by kenne
Sonoran Sunrise
The mountains drink fire.
Saguaro stand tall
blessing the dawn.
Ocotillo bleeds light,
fingers trembling
in the pale wind.
The sun—
golden blades—
cut the sky
wide open.
Silence spills
into flame.
And the desert,
old, dreaming,
remembers its heart—
burning,
always burning.
Sabino Canyon Sunrise — Image by kenne
Nurse Tree
Pima Canyon Sunrise — Image by kenne
— kenne
Sunrise Through the Trees On Mt. Lemmon — Photo-artistry by kenne
— kenne
Guiding Pheonix Area Photographers To Get Sunrise Photos In Sabino Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The photographer
seeks to connect what
is already connected; the
past, present, and future
in a moment of existence
while being a traveler
in other people’s reality
sharing an awareness
of the present experience.
An awareness of the moment
with the whole being, the artist
is of the experience —
the essence of existence.
The artist desires to share
the essence, but the resulting image
is about the experience, not
of the experience —
the Tao of Observation.
In the process
of capturing an event
the photographer feels
and sees in the moment,
the Tao of an event —
the Tao that is projected
is outside the moment
hence, it is not
the essence of Tao.
— kenne
Saguaro Sunrise — Image by kenne
— kenne
Sunrise in West Texas East of Ft. Stockton On I-10 (December 23, 2022) — Image by kenne
— kenne
Lake Woodlands Sunrise (1990) Image by kenne
Morning
— from Morning by Billy Collins
Sunrise On The West Coast of Mexico (01/07/07) — Image by kenne
A bay off the Mexican west coast
the rising sun glistens around a
half sunken military boat near
a sleepy coastal village covered
with a yellow-to-gray haze.
If it is true, everything is good
fades away with time,
it is also true that rust awaits
metal resting in saltwater.
A cruise ship sat at the
entrance to the bay —
gone the sailors and hookers
up the dusty road to Tijuana —
only to be buried standing,
buried facing west.
— kenne
An Autumn Sunrise On Mt. Lemmon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— kenne
Saguaro Sunrise — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— kenne
Sedona Sunrise — Image by kenne
Words at Daybreak
— Tess Taylor
Lake Woodlands Sunrise (May 25,2010) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Meditation means keeping one mind.
You must understand – what is life?
What is death? If you keep one mind,
there is no life, no death.
Then if you die tomorrow, no problem;
if you die in five minutes, no problem.
— Seung Sahn
Good Morning World! (Sonoran Desert Sunrise) — Images by kenne
