070 family ties

the sweetest sensibilities

of hearth and home

are cherished

and nurtured

in many forms

©Kim Magennis 2015

069 icy seas

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what will people

make of ancient images

will they disbelieve?

will they marvel or grieve?

when this world grows hot and dry

will they dream of snow and ice?

©Kim Magennis 2015

068 carvings

we give great honour

to carvers of wood and stone

we admire proportions

and texture and tone

forgetting

that nature was the first

master carver

with subtle tools

and infinite patience

she outdoes the least of her creatures

©Kim Magennis 2015

067 icefall

we look to the stars for mystery and grandeur

when right before our eyes

the miracle of water

becomes

a crystal sculpture

of light

and

ice

©Kim Magennis 2015

066 mother-love 04

how precious

to this one's heart

is her child

how pure

is this one's love

That she is not like me

can never devalue

the currency

of her mother-love

©Kim Magennis 2015

065 beauty aloft

we take the things we

know

for granted

and assume our experience of them

is

all there is

even those things we

deem

beautiful

are wondrously strange 

if we see them

as really they are

©Kim Magennis 2015

064 gentle conversations

gentleness and affection

are not

exclusively human conversations

mankind is apt

to think

it created

the finer emotions

©Kim Magennis 2015

063 storm

as a storm brings rain

so

chaos brings change

©Kim Magennis 2015

062 clouds

Great cloud sculptures

adorn the sky

unperturbed by human scurryings

Like vast pillars of  ocean foam

they drift,

coagulate and then dissolve.

Sometimes 

they shiver with power

and bless the land with their tears.

©Kim Magennis 2015

061 habituation

The thing about beauty-perceived

is that 

when there is a lot of it 

we become blind to it.

Because it is not rare

we forget to care.

©Kim Magennis 2015

060 lovers

Lovers on the dance floor

- a universal mating ritual -

Observe the intricate steps of

defense and attack

and ultimate surrender.

Lover and Loved

parry and block

regroup and engage again.

©Kim Magennis 2015

059 water ballet

Context is everything.

If we offer the right environment,

anyone can be 

graceful, elegant, and beautiful.

The converse applies.

Even the most magnificent soul

can be diminished

if it is out of place.

©Kim Magennis 2015