Posts Tagged ‘red’
a moment of beautiful – traffic lights
the space: above the roadway, at an intersection, in the fog
the beautiful: green, yellow and red traffic lights, seeming to hover, like jewels in the fog
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Traffic lights!!! Beautiful??? Perhaps you will never agree. But I think those lights, when seen on a foggy day, suspended as if from the sky itself, are as beautiful as jewels. Emerald, topaz and ruby.
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Copyright Jane Tims 2012
‘blue’berry fields in autumn
This time of the year, the only thing ‘blue’ about our blueberry fields is the blue sky above them. The fields themselves are a blanket of scarlet and orange.
These are a few scenes of the October blueberry fields in south-west New Brunswick…
legacy
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remaining in the room
a well-used blanket
red with two black stripes
inexpensive facsimile of
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a white
three-beaver blanket
stripes red, yellow, green
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a blue sky
two vapor contrails
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the yellow double line
on an asphalt road
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a band of stars
across a light-starved sky
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a red leather book
with black ribbons
mark passages for giving
thanks:
look down from heaven
upon the fields, now white
unto the harvest
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a crimson blueberry field
in October, draped across bones
of the landscape
double tracks leading away
over the horizon
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© Jane Tims 2011
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