#caption4reflection — Public Fediverse posts

From the leaden sky
descends a dark winged lady —
Black sunbeams dawning.

Reddened night replies
and locks her blackened aerie —
Hunter’s moon is rising.

Morning herald cries
to summon sunburst faeries —
Sparks rise a-flaming.

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#sky #architecture #potsdam #sanssouci #neoclassical #clouds #angel #statue #sculpture #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

A row of portraits of admirals past
hang on the old royal yacht’s hull —
Their time of banal glory is past
and the ship sleeps in a perpetual lull:
Their eyes stare back and blankly gaze
at the tourists who they never knew
as their memory fades into the misty haze
of the dark harbor of yesteryear too

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As each iris bloom
meets its doom
the iris just
brings forth another
Year after year
her flowers bring cheer
with nary a sign that she suffers
Yet that is just why
the tiny black fly
must wonder what the iris truly feels
For though she doesn’t complain
or show signs of her pains
perhaps there’s more than what she reveals

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#bloomscrolling #nature #iris #garden

A weed is merely
a plant found in the wrong place —
Where do you belong?

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#flowers #bloomscrolling #spring #nature

Photo series:
Christmas markets, part III —
You are the light of the world
4 photos

And in the darkest times, we feel
the blackness grow inside
So light our lamps and candles here
that work to turn the tide
Together brighten up the night
and be the sparks that set alight

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Up high she stands on her gilded dais
so far above the daily fray
But all around is a frozen waste
and love and friendship she’ll never taste

#art #poemaday #poem #poetry #caption4reflection #melancholy #melancholia #moody #sanssouci #potsdam #germany #winter #architecture #baroque #nikonphotography #nikonphoto #photography #fotografie

A king once built himself a house
and called it Sans Souci
In French that means it’s free from cares
but cares are all I see

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What makes you noble?
To be born a king?
To have others
your praises to sing?
No — nobility flows
from the joy you bring

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A birch tree’s tassels hanging down
in sleepy failing fields of brown
and fading flecks of green and gold —
It’s nature’s time of feeling old

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And as a darkness now descends
and fear and worry vex my heart,
I tell myself that life depends
on sharing hope — where future starts

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And Fall has fallen and colors fade
The frost is biting as winter’s made
A time to reap, a time to sow,
a time to slumber as cold winds blow,
awaiting spring and sun’s rebirth
another cycle in our lives on earth

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And as the final leaves of fall
lose hold of branches, twigs, and all,
they slip to earth and softly grace
the waiting soil’s full sweet embrace:
someday must you and I take leave
from lives we cling to though we grieve

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And in this world ablaze with fear
some solace is found in nature near
to us in fiery glory — hearths
of flame in fall’s bright leafy sparks

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#potsdam #alexandrowka #mentalhealth #Tree #Tranquility #TranquilScene #Nature #TreeTrunk #Autumn #ScenicsNature #germany #colors #colours #fall #fallcolors #photography #fotografie #nikonphotography #nikonphoto

And in this town of fateful twists
where history treads a zigzag path
of painful change and bitter grist —
rebirth’s the constant aftermath

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#potsdam #germany #architecture #History #Sky #Outdoors #Landmark #Travel #Tourism #Building #baroque #caption4reflection #prussia #palace #church #dome #colonnade #snap_architecture #snap_europe #snap_europe_germany #snap_kingdom #photography #fotografie #nikonphotography #nikonphoto

And I looked up the castle wall
to see the faded sundial face
and thought, what better mental scene
for passing time’s unceasing pace

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#silentsunday #stillersonntag #caption4reflection
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This apothecary is quite merry
besides its pills and powders —
Aesthetics pure are an added cure:
Medicinal beauty has its power

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And there I see the storms blow in
and times of tempest growl up high
While clocks still tick and we still breathe —
though life’s great pains may make us sigh
with crushing doom impending still
the ticks and tocks of time pass by
as will all my pain and sorrow…

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And in the depths of my despair
I reached for higher ground
and in the mountains’ thinner air
my ears heard not a sound —
I felt drawn close to heavens fair
and peace is what I found

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I walked up to the mountains’ roots
and looked up high to see the sky
and watched as heaven reached down to kiss
the mother earth with a lover’s sigh

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And though it’s hard to make the change
and while you try, it feels so strange,
we can shine out like golden rays
to pierce the dark and light the way

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Even in a chaotic world
there are places of peaceful calm —
One of them is inside of you —
Close your eyes and breathe and you’re there

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When my mood is bleak
and it’s peace I seek
there’s nothing like
a mountain peak

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