Archive for the ‘Silhouette’ Tag
San Xavier del Bac Mission Window — Image by kenne
Silhouette In The Window
He sits in the dark
A silhouette in the light
Shinning through God’s window
My subject of admiration
A glowing image in the darkness
Only to become the stuff of dreams
— kenne
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Cedar Waxwing Silhouette — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Spiritualists believe waxwings to be a symbol of selfless generosity.
The symbolism of the waxwing totem is believed to teach selflessness
and the practice of giving to others for their benefit, and not your own.
Waxwings are traditionally associated with the politeness you should have
when you give away to others the thing you have craved for or cherished for so long.
— James Common
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“Girlfriend” — Photo-Artistry by kenne
There she was nude
sitting on the ottoman
in the window light
applying eye shadow.
Gazing at her silhouetted body
she knows I’m watching her
typically acting unaware
inattentive of my desires.
— kenne
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Silhouette — Granddad and Grandson (Kenne Jaxon) at Sunset
if—
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
— Rudyard Kipling
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Bird Silhouette #3 (Phainopepla) — Image by kenne
listen to nature
and hear the music of life
life pursues music
— kenne
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Mockingbird Silhouette by kenne
“I pray to the birds because
they remind me of what I love
rather than what I fear.
And at the end of my prayers,
they teach me how to listen.”
― Terry Tempest Williams
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Western Bluebird Silhouette by kenne
A traveler on a dusty road
Strewed acorns on the lea;
And one took root and sprouted up,
And grew into a tree.
Love sought its shade at evening-time,
To breathe its early vows;
And Age was pleased, in heights of noon,
To bask beneath its boughs.
The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,
The birds sweet music bore —
It stood a glory in its place,
A blessing evermore.
— from “Song of Life” by Charles MacKay
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Swallowtail Silhouette — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Darkness out of light
A winged shadow on thistle
Flight into darkness.
— kenne
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“Desert Silhouette”
Desert Silhouette
A dead saguaro
Stands silhouetted
Against the morning sky
A darken symbol of life
As a lone hiker looks up
From the trail below
Still in the canyon shadow
Pondering the meaning
Of this dark creature
As shadows move
Down the canyon walls
Vanishing the silhouette
And any creature thoughts
Only to leave behind
The remains of what was
A Sonoran desert giant.
— kenne
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Cowboy Silhouette — Image by kenne
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Tree of Life — Image by kenne
Such a beautiful tree —
so representative of life.
Yet, we often see beauty
only in the foliage and blossoms
nature provides in one of life’s stages.
Why?
Beauty is everywhere —
there is beauty in death,
marking the stage so important
in the cycles of life.
This tree (image of) is amazing,
a sculpture in the face of the sun,
containing the shapes we use
to design our places in this world.
What image do you present
in the face of the sun?
Does it add?
Does it subtract?
Be honest!
kenne
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Silhouette Glow
Drawing In Paint — Images by kenne
opposites are one
composing yesteryear’s coldness
stretching through time
standing still in the moment
searching the unrestricted
working with opposites
reassuring in sameness
emphasizing divergence
promising order
pleasing to self
kenne
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“Desert Silhouette II” — Image by kenne
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“Desert Silhouette” — Image by kenne
“Oh that the desert were my dwelling place,
With only one fair spirit for my minster.
That I might forget the human race,
And hating no one, love her only.”
— Lord Byron
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Becoming is Superior to Being 