Archive for the ‘Metaphor’ Tag
Hose Bib — Image by kenne
Hose Bib Metaphor of Life
there’s a small sadness
in calling the plumber
for something you’d have solved
with half a hangover
and the wrong tools
a few years ago.
but the plumber’s a good guy.
he fixes it quick,
smiles,
says it wasn’t a big deal.
I nod, pay him,
–watch him drive off
with my former life
rattling in the back
of his truck.
— kenne
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Photo-Artistry by kenne
Life is like a candle wick
Lit by a spark in the beginning
Burning long and bright,
Providing light for every act.
Slowly, the wick gets shorter.
The light begins to dem,
Only to become a flicker
Signaling the end of life.
— kenne
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Kenne Squared — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A “Nurse Tree” In Sabino Canyon — Images by kenne
2020 is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Health Assembly (WHA) as the year to honor nurses and midwives to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale who is considered the founder of modern nursing. Nurses and midwives are vital to providing health services to our communities. These people are devoting their lives to caring for mothers and children, giving lifesaving immunizations and health advice, looking after older people, and generally meeting everyday essential health needs. And they are often the first and only point of care, yet the world needs 9 million more nurses and midwives if it is to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.
The vital role of the nurse becomes a metaphor for those of us (Sabino Canyon Volunteer Nationalists) involved in teaching elementary school children about the importance and survival of saguaros in Sabino Canyon and the Sonoran Desert.
SCVN member, Debbie Bird, telling third graders about the “Nurse Tree.”
(She also got the attention of an elderly couple visiting Sabino Canyon.)
Often, for young saguaros to survive, they are located near another faster-growing tree that shelters the slower-growing plant by providing shade, shelter from the wind and sun, or protection from animals that may feed on the young plant. Such a plant is called a nurse tree. A metaphor easily understood by the children in conveying the important relationship between the tree and the saguaro. They get it!
— kenne
“Even though they’re dead, they are not gone — trees find a way to help each other out postmortem.”
— Allie Wisniewski, American Forests
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Tucson Sunset — Image by kenne
Tucson sunset
A metaphor
That replaces
The snowflake
— kenne
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Red-Veined Darter Dragonfly — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Dragonflies appear
Darting mysteriously
Metaphor of life.
— kenne
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My Visual Metaphor for Breast Cancer — Image of Joy in René Magritte’s Delusions of Grandeur II by kenne
What counts is precisely this moment of panic, and not its explanation.
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Sonoran Desert: Above the Earth, Below the Sky — Image by kenne
My image is a metaphor,
an outward expression
of my inward being
becoming a mirror
held up to nature —
a message in a bottle
from a shore
I have visited before.
kenne
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