..sharing thoughts from my life & song-books along the way.. and this i scribbled.. so i share..

©️ dww

#philosophy #indiemusic #quotes #singersongwriter

Oct 2022 – a photo from a visit to Toto Gorge, a flank collapse of nearby Karioi (an extinct stratovolcano). Standing at the railing of the weathered wooden viewing platform, one is presented with a stratum of views and edges: of the platform; of the gorge; of a small breaking wave on the Tasman Sea's shoreline; of the wide-open horizon and (l)edge of the world. The gorge and its rugged, terraced cliffs are verdantly blanketed with native shrub and brush. The far below surf is but a scribbled line of white crayon along a sliver of a black sand beach. The Tasman - a tranquil, cerulean mystery – is almost like a mirror. Above it all, the sun’s rays are gentle, with just a gleam of a kiss on the horizon; the sky holds no cloud. It seems many breaths are being held here this day…along the edge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karioi - Te Toto Gorge. “Fifteen lava flows make up the 150 m (490 ft) cliffs of the Gorge showing many large augite crystals (phenocrysts) up to 15 mm (0.59 in).” https://www.geotrips.org.nz/trip.html?id=768

𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒
𝑖 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠
𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛

ꕀ˖✧˖°ꕀ˖✧˖°ꕀ˖✧˖°

#BlueSkyArtShow | #edge
#mobilephotography #photography
#senryu #poetry #micropoetry

Sep 2023 - a visit to the Tree Cosy in a nearby suburb. Multi-coloured knitted art drapes a large Pohutukawa tree. "Knitted graffiti - or 'yarn bombing' as it's also known..." Free hugs? Count me in 😊🫂🧡 https://hobsonvillepoint.co.nz/community/news/community/hobsonville-points-best-dressed-tree/

𝚂𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚜
𝙴𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝
𝙻𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐
𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍
𝚄𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚗
𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎
𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝

#BraveWrite | #selcouth
#acrostic #micropoetry #poetry
#mobilephotography #photography

On the #edge of the South Rim

Grand Canyon NP, Arizona

#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Travels #Nature #NationalParks

Crocuses

Woo!! My Crocuses are up 🥰 !!

early lilacs—
grief caught
without its coat
#haiku #poetry

..i don’t know for sure what’s after death.. but i’m going somewhere.. and it’s pretty.. just like i know i came from someplace.. so when someone i love dies.. i miss them, for me.. but know they’re happy where they are…

©️DWW

—sharing travels from my life & song-books..

it's in-between..
dark of the fall..
moon of the rise.
i think there's something..
in that motionless place..
no one speaks to.
it's where you taste lightning & swallow thunder..
then you don't feel it anymore..
it's over.
and you carry on..

©️dww

no hashtags | worst time of day for post-purposely

When you look out and see a squirrel nibbling. What more can the heart say pleases it? Such fragility, such strength. The blessings of nature are many, the sweetness of existence a walk into acceptance that now is all that matters.

#poetry #photography
📷 by me

Busy aura of the falling night. Crickets are singing for monsoon to drown the skies and I join them with smiling lullabies. I feel alive in this season, aglow. Remembering the rain will wash the slate clean and new chapters can claim.

#poetry #photography
📷 by me

The lake stands still, seems like years ago I let the wrath of those beloved sink there. Words silence better in the grey, clouds press on change heavily but with sympathy. The lake stands still, after all these years, awaiting the next storm, like me.

#poetry #photography
📷 by me

Thank you, dear Sunlit…🙏🙏😊😊

Sometimes, it's all doors or walls, bricks listening and wood smiling, lounges that remind me of The Shining. Somewhere on this timeline, my inner screams may be heard just as loudly as a mountain's sigh, time locks many avenues, eventually.

📷 by me
#poetry #photography

In these clouds
darkly ambient
I see myself

no longer
wishing
to be not I

rather to drown
before and in
the fire

#poetry #photography
📷 by me

Here is the latest watercolor haiga by Cendrine Marrouat. The sky is blue with hints of pink and light whispers of grey clouds. There are four bird silhouettes, flying staggered, over the upper left and the upper right. In the foreground is a mossy green mountain that peaks on the left with a black, upright, round-canopied tree atop. Behind it, an orange-brown mountain peaks on the right. The overall feel of this painting is tranquil, cozy, and slightly dusky. This lovely scene conjures the perfect background for Cendrine's haiku: Suddenly the asymmetry of mountains home

Week 2 of #NationalPoetryMonth, we honor the incredible #haiga artistry of Cendrine Marrouat (@cendrinemedia.bsky.social).

Suddenly
the asymmetry of mountains
home

Join us again next Wednesday to celebrate more #PoetryMonth #WolfPack Highlights.

#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Poetry ✍️

The painting on the left is Rainy Night, Etaples (1912) by the American artist William Edouard Scott. This rainy cityscape is layered with cool tones and subtle notes of warmth. His heavy impasto emphasizes the dusky blue night background. Light to medium grey buildings contrast the darkness with teal gradients. Shades of yellow and pink glow from the two street lamps on the left, and from the windows on the right. Scott’s inclusion of figures carrying umbrellas, over the reflections of light along the empty street, conveys wet pavement and a misty atmosphere. The poem on the right is by today’s featured poet, Danielle Grace: Leaving Escaping wild like rains Fallen free of summer veins Filling up grass blades With fiery Autumn shades Painting bright memory stains Numbers piling high in gains As once branched glory wanes Upstaging mother tree seeds Embracing escaping rains Harvest embers grounds lain Crunching underfoot again Winding flags in breezes made Intensified as sunlight fades Circling around urban drains Rains—wildly escaping.

Week 3 of #NationalPoetryMonth, we visit the modern rhyme scheme of Danielle Grace (@danigracewrites.bsky.social).

Join us this Thursday for #HaikuDay and again next Wednesday to celebrate more #PoetryMonth #WolfPack Highlights.

#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Poetry ✍️

Here is a black and white nature photo of an acorn split in have, revealing its heart shape inside. The seed half rests in the upper left side, its top slightly tilts left on a fallen log. In the background, textures of cracks and wood chips dip in and out of the bokeh. Fun fact: The average oak produces 2,000 to 10,000 acorns a year. During the tree’s “mast year,” which occurs every 2-5 years to ensure survival, it produces 10,000 acorns. Also known as bumper crops, this massive output helps the seeds escape being eaten. Nature is incredible. I couldn’t help but wonder, what about our output of love? Is more love in our lives the answer to our survival? Focusing on building supportive communities, friendship, and nurturing the land feels right. For us, every year can be a mast year; this realization inspired the latest alliterative senryu from my journal. existence fractures in oak's shade I drop 10,000 hearts

✨️♡🌳🌰🌳♡✨️

existence fractures
in oak's shade
I drop 10,000 hearts

#EastCoastKin
#ShowHeart #ImageAndVerse
#Cassiopeian #Exist

#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku #micropoetry #photography #macro #nationalpoetrymonth #poetrymonth #classicmono

There's a point where life will shake you and when it does, it demands answers you have cloaked all your days. Those answers are best reflected on when you realise they are actually questions and how long you wish to burn. Would time be reversible, perhaps choices would carry more weight.

#poetry

A Great Blue Heron stands motionless in shallow blue water, its long neck stretched upward and sharp beak pointed forward. The still water creates a near-perfect mirror reflection of the bird below. Sparse aquatic grass and floating vegetation surround it.

Great Blue Heron standing still in a pond, nature hiding in plain sight.
3-2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #GreatBlueHeron #BirdPhotography #SonyAlpha

A European Starling perched on a budding spring branch, its iridescent black plumage shimmering with green and purple highlights. The bird gazes upward against a vivid blue sky, surrounded by fresh young leaves and delicate catkins.

Iridescent Morning
3-2026

Easy to overlook, hard to ignore up close. The European Starling doesn't get much love, but catch one in spring light with fresh catkins budding around it and suddenly everything makes sense.

#BirdOfTheDay #LeafandLight #EuropeanStarling #IridescentBirds #Bird #SonyAlpha

Two Turkey Vultures perched at the tops of separate trees, both with wings fully outstretched in a sunning pose against a deep blue sky. Their bare red heads, brown mottled plumage, and silvery flight feathers are visible as they face slightly toward each other.

Morning Sun Ritual
3-2026

The horaltic pose — wings spread wide to catch the morning sun. Turkey Vultures do this to warm up, dry off, and bake off bacteria after a night's roost. Unglamorous reasons for a genuinely majestic sight.

#BirdOfTheDay #LeafandLight #SunBathing #Bird #SonyAlpha

quiet pond—
a wisteria petal
chooses not to sink
#haiku #poetry

Aerial landscape view looking west from the summit of Mount Diablo, California, across rolling green hills layered in atmospheric haze toward the San Francisco Bay Area. The foreground shows dark green pine trees, giving way to wave after wave of emerald ridgelines dotted with scattered suburban development. In the far distance, approximately 30 miles away, the faint silhouette of the San Francisco skyline is visible on the left horizon, with the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge faintly discernible to the right, partially obscured by coastal haze. The sky is pale blue-white with thin overcast clouds. A small aircraft is barely visible near the top center of the frame.

The Bay at the Edge of the World
Summit of Mt. Diablo📍
March 2026

30 miles of California between me and the Golden Gate Bridge.

#Stunday #SonyAlpha #MtDiablo #EastBay #BayArea #California #GoldenGateBridge #LandscapePhotography #Atmospheric #MarineLayer #Skyline #SanFrancisco

An American White Pelican glides low over rippled water with wings fully spread, showing striking white plumage and black flight feathers, with its orange bill pointed forward and a soft reflection visible below.

White Pelican in Flight
2-2026

Unlike their Brown Pelican cousins, American White Pelicans don't dive for fish — they scoop them up while swimming. But in the air? Pure elegance

@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #JKLMNOP #SonyAlpha #AmericanWhitePelican #Pelican #Bird #Nature #Wildlife

I gripped summer
hard, fierce, not so fierce
for even my hold is soft

monsoon has made a promise
I look forward to when able
not a drizzle but downpour

sometimes soft needs
unfiltered and real-raw
to bleed in time with

#poetry

New, light baby pinkish, mycena mushrooms growing on a leaf.. a person holds the leave on their hand. The background is blurred green.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#New
#macro
#mycena
#mushroom
#mycology
#thelittlethings

Brand new mycenas...

@geertje-geertsma.bsky.social

This is a seascape painting. A river going down to the sea through a mud flat. The is a boat moored that is sitting on the mud. In the fore ground is a painting inspired from the view

Pants still wet on this #new #PleinAirApril #seascape.

#BlueSkyArtShow #art #Clevedon #somerset #watercoloronpaper