The Poetry of Photography | haiku + images

4093

Random fireworks stands
were waiting (maybe) for me
to see potential.

Miami, Oklahoma
photographed 4.5.2023

Tags: haiku, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, miami, micropoetry, oklahoma, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, Route 66, take time to look, take time to see, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4092

Pair of jubilant
fans celebrate home run.
(Our team won the game.)

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.3.2023

Tags: baseball, haiku, learning to see, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4091

Not photographer
when I lived in NOLA, which
was sort of a shame.

New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.11.2023

Tags: architecture, haiku, learning to see, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, new orleans, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4089

Do you see it? That
face on the cross? (It might
an apparition. )

Oxford, Texas
photographed 2.19.2023

Tags: church, haiku, learning to see, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4090

This couple laughed the
whole time they were there and
it made me happy.

Guthrie Green
Tulsa, Oklahoma
photographed 4.8.2023

Tags: Guthrie Green, haiku, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, oklahoma, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, things i see, thoughtful seeing, Tulsa

4088

Laundry lifted by
warm breezes dried quickly and
it was soon replaced.

Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.7.2022

Tags: Cuba, haiku, Havana, learning to see, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4087

This place: I forgot
to slow down and see. I was
busy with photos.

Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.11.2022

Tags: cemetery, Cuba, haiku, Havana, learning to see, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4086

For decades, I passed
within miles of this place,
didn’t even know.

Reeves County, Texas
photographed 1.14.2023

Tags: church, haiku, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4085

It was just a door.
No walls around it, not a
building behind it.

Oxford, Texas
photographed 2.19.2023

Tags: cemetery, haiku, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to look, take time to see, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing

4084

Almost exactly
ten years between two photos:
time takes its own time.

Johnson City, Texas
photographed 2.19.2023

Tags: haiku, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, photography, poetry, postaday, reasons to stop, take time to see, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing

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