Archive for the ‘Bolivia’ Tag
Bolivian Grandma with Grandchild — Image by kenne
Your bowler hat sits
like a quiet defiance—
not loud, not pleading,
simply present.
The child leans into you,
a question not yet spoken:
Will I have to fight as you did?
You tighten the shawl—
your answer
is warmth.
— kenne
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Isle of the Sun — Photo-artistry by kenne
On the Isle of the Sun
the houses lean open—
not broken, not abandoned—
the doorways don’t close
just unwilling to keep anything in.
Each window
leans forward,
hungry for light,
for the shimmer of the lake
breathing sky back into itself.
I stand in one threshold
and feel the old stories
press through my ribs.
I walk through a room
and the sun walks with me—
no permission asked.
And still—
the openings remain,
wide, insistent,
as if to say:
nothing we love
was ever meant
to stay contained.
And the lake—
always the lake—
keeps answering
with a brightness
that does not belong to me
but enters anyway.
— kenne
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Isla del Sol Painting by kenne
Isla del Sol
Sun warms my skin
thawing winter away
from snow capped Andes
misting over blue waters
that sparkle in yellow and pinks
playing tricks on my eyes.
A native woman nurses her child
behind a blanket, multicolored fluorescents,
and coos her to the rocking of the boat.
On land, sunlight bleaches my eyes along
white salted paths.
My hands have turned rosy and cracked
like the round cheeks of Bolivian children.
Short of breath I find stone ruins,
Incan work at the edge of a hillside
and a million doorways and windows
jump out to the sunlit lake
— Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
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Bolivian Street Scene (08/24/19) — Image by kenne
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature.
We are not here to oppress anybody –
but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
— Evo Morales
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Eyespot Butterfly, Bolivian Amazon (09/19/19)– Image by kenne
Watch me; I’m looking at you.
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Neotropic Cormorant On The Tuichi River In the Amazon (08/23/19) — Image by kenne
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Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon (08/21/19)– Image by kenne
Early morning fog
burned off
by mid-morning
taking with it
the wet air
and the jungle
darkness.
— kenne
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Bolivian Fresh Flowers Women (August 2019) — Image by kenne
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Butterfly On Boat — HDR Image by kenne
Butterfly on boat
Going along for a ride
On a sunny day.
— kenne
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Tuichi River Morning in the Bolivian Amazon (August 22, 2019) — HDR Image by kenne
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Gray Heron (Madidi National Park, Bolivia–08/23/19) — Image by kenne
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Downtown La Paz, Bolivia (August 2019) — Image by kenne
High in the Andes
Sites can take your breath away
Where the air is thin.
— kenne
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Great Blue Heron In Madidi National Park, Bolivia (08/23/19) — Image by kenne
knee-deep in water
pay no attention to me
I’m a passer-by
— kenne
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Airport Cafe, Rurrenabaque, Bolivia (RBQ)– 08/19/19 Image by kenne
Rurrenabaque, a port city on the Beni River, is one of the main entrances to the Madidi National Park.
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Building Construction — Rurrenabaque, Bolivia In The Amazon Forest (08/19/19) — Image by kenne
Rurrenabaque
Sits on the Beni River
Amazon journey.
— kenne
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