*The following poem is offered in response to the One Stop Poetry Sunday Picture Prompt Challenge. This wonderful prompt was shot by photographer Danielle Kelly. She is featured today on One Shoot Photography Sunday. Come check out her excellent photography!
Trailing veil like windswept sail
Walking over boardwalk planks
Holding up Bridezilla’s tail
Not seeing what’s behind them
As if her maid couldn’t keep more silent
Turns aside with sigh
Second undefined, then
We don’t know
If she’s smiling or crying
Still helping a friend
Across Coney Island
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January 2, 2011 at 12:14 am
Love that photo and the poem you wrote with it…kudos on this one my friend.
January 2, 2011 at 12:18 am
Wow, fantastic photo that looks really old fashioned & modern too with the background hustle. Fantastic poetry and yes with her face being hidden that unsurity of if she is smiling or crying. Love the mention of “Bridezilla” in flipping through stations I’ve seen that show mentioned/always shake my head and walk away. (However its gotten worse…yep women wanting extreme make-overs, liposuction, tummy tucks, rhinoplasty…eghh dear, lol) Not sure what the world is coming to!
~ Well anyway your words cast beauty, question, and that blend of reality not so perfect, and I find that in itself a rewarding read!
~Wonderful photography to Danielle Kelly. 🙂
January 2, 2011 at 12:22 am
This may just be my favorite so far 🙂
January 2, 2011 at 2:19 am
Appreciate the visit, Charles, April, & Diana. Haappy New Year! April, I hear you. That show’s a bit over-the-top. lol As for the post, credit to Danielle Kelly. I think her photo is abosolutely amazing!
January 2, 2011 at 3:02 am
What a wonderful poem today. I liked the reference to Bridezilla, I had to chuckle when I read that.
January 2, 2011 at 4:11 am
Love how you have described two realities co-existing! Interesting questions about her reality!
January 2, 2011 at 9:05 am
I like the question in thoughts your poem takes to
January 2, 2011 at 9:29 am
I am glad you incorporated the hidden face into your piece. I didn’t even touch that…smiling or crying…good mystery end.
January 2, 2011 at 11:06 am
Very nice take on the pic, dustus. You give it a wry, contemporary and very human flair. Thanks for the Happy New Year wish, and the same to you, my friend.
January 2, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Thanks. I enjoy your writing 🙂
January 2, 2011 at 11:26 am
This is a really innovative take on the prompt, until I saw your words I had read all the other takes and hadn’t even seen the other person that could be at the end of that taffeta trail! Intriguing write, I love snapshot poems that leave you wanting to know more about the characters =)
January 2, 2011 at 3:23 pm
appreciate your comment, Carmela 🙂
January 2, 2011 at 11:34 am
Interesting. You didn’t go for the bride angle, but for the woman behind the bride, the bridesmaid, and used it to produce a whole new angle on a sense of loneliness…potential joy, or sorrow, depending on how we look at it. It is not her day, but she is there to help a friend, and there, there she stands and wonders…looks out on the beach and ponders what could be, what is, what will never be…just a second, and nothing more.
Striking work Dustus!
January 2, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Thank you, my friend. Won’t forget this compliment.
January 2, 2011 at 12:33 pm
yeah – we don’t know if she’s smiling or crying – i like this line because it makes me think beyond the veil and beyond the pic..
January 2, 2011 at 3:18 pm
When looking at the photo I kept trying to see a face behind the veil. Then gave up b/c I couldn’t tell. lol
January 2, 2011 at 1:35 pm
“Holding up Bridezilla’s tail”
I am loving that!
January 2, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Had a feeling you’d dig that line, Shay 😉
January 2, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I love this photo it’s got a delicacy to it, as if she’s looking for / longing for something but can’t quite find it. As always Adam you’ve done a fine job. Is she crying or giggling? We’ll never know!
Shan
January 2, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Super– this affected me in similar ways…xxxj
January 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Excellent, Adam. I like the unexpected use of the word Bridezilla.
We see the person in the picture in a completely different way.
January 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Wonderful choice of words “Bridezilla” the best that gives the prompt a totally new life…and the helping a friend…is that not what life is all about…best to you Adam..bkm
January 2, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Bridezilla’s tail – I love that!
January 2, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Very nice, I did like the shift of focus from the core picture to someone outside the scope of thought. Makes it closer to home. Wonderful job on this one!
January 2, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Great image to image and then through and beyond the veil and the oddities. Liked it a lot Adam. Gay @beachanny
January 3, 2011 at 2:40 am
I love how you keep up the mystery in the picture with yur poem, Adam! A “second undefined/then we don’t know” the expression on her face or if “she’s still helping a friend”! A “Bridezilla”, indeed! Thanks.
January 3, 2011 at 7:38 am
bridezilla…loved it…great one shoot…cheers pete
January 3, 2011 at 10:47 am
Yours are words to …
to fly in to emotion
simple, apparently, thoughts
meandearing
I like to go through
January 3, 2011 at 11:51 am
It’s true – we don’t know if she’s smiling or crying. Great poem, Adam.
January 4, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Nice take on the picture…I couldn’t help but chuckle at your usage of bridezillaand liked the aura of mystery.
January 5, 2011 at 9:22 am
I wish i could words to this pic as brillaintly as you did ! fantastic 🙂
January 5, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Excellent, but your poetry always is.
January 9, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Loved the poem and the photograph. I liked the line..not seeing what’s behind them.
January 16, 2011 at 8:23 am
Good descriptions. Graceful.