Post Mother’s Day, I recorded the beauty of my gift bouquets with my camera. When I uploaded them to my computer, they transformed and took over several days of creativity. I tried to ignore them, attempted to stop tweaking both picture and word but I failed. So now readers must suffer through my Post Mother’s Day Poetic Journey.

Alternating dark and light

I cannot leave a picture alone.

My camera finds it. I frame

and shoot.

Transferred to my computer

dark room I cannot resist.

I experiment with digital development.

Moving a slider innocent

of  effect, I discover

a darkness inside the orange and pink

of rose and peony.

Once the dark gives birth,

I think background

for the pink peony

the peach rose.

Executed

they become the yin

and yang it seems

and yet I don’t see

them as two energies

push and pull

expand, contract–

Simply themselves

they wait patiently for us

to look into their depths.

Janice DeRuiter