Half light, half shadow
Glasses half filled or emptied?
Living leaves on brick
A swath of cranberry bog
Breaking blue to bright white sky
My favorite photo challenge sought unspoken dialogue between two pictures.
So, with apologies to Elvis Presley, I’m adding a little more conversation–this time more of a conference call than a dialogue . . . . in tanka form.
Splintering, fanning
Ephemeral as paper
Or fleeting fireworks
Displayed only in sun or
Carved forever into stone
Verticality
aspirational
And sometimes seems effortless
Despite the worldly weight borne
Reaching for heaven
Phototropism alone?
Exceeding one’s grasp,
as Robert Browning once wrote,
Contains its own rich rewards
Before and after
In a single photograph
Decay and full bloom
Singing, scarlet on headstone
Daily startling me anew
Love in the Spaces 
Love this beautiful gallery! Great take on, Stephanie.
Thank you! I think my favorite is that little wildly gesticulating lemur, who looks like he’s telling a tall tale to his friends.
Beautiful, Stephanie.
Thank you! It was as much fun (and possibly more) to group them in fives and sevens as it was to do the two-by-two photos.
This is truly beautiful, Stephanie! I can literally see these pictures talk to each other. Great job!
Thanks! I’d especially like to be there if those hands-outstretched-to-the-sky characters ever got together in real life. . . .
Great collection!
Thank you. I’m waiting for another prompt as an excuse to do more 🙂
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This visually terrific — what a view of your world!!! AM
My world is . . . varied, to put it mildly.
Looks like you’ve found a creative vehicle that lets you zoom along pretty easily. This is great stuff!
I’m so smitten with the photo challenge that started this that I’m thinking maybe I should do a Diablogue 🙂
Oooh, nice portmanteau!
Yet another thing we have in common: I think you and I may be the only people in the country to regularly use the word “portmanteau.”
Well, there’s my daughter with the Master’s degree in Linguistics…. 😉