Visual Poetry. How to attain these two words in my life? Ever since I can remember I have wanted to be a photographer. Something in images capture me and speak to some unknown part of me, my soul? I can feel an invisible part of me reaching out and wondering or receiving something of life from a photograph. More than a scene I might happen upon with my eye, a photograph tells a story, catches a mood, a longing. An unattainable goal for my life, a photographer. I want to ‘write with light’, I want to write visual poems.
If I ever have free time (ha), I love to go to my local Barnes and Noble, find a few books that catch my eye and sit down with a cup of coffee and choose which one I can’t live without. For a few months I have picked up, and reshelved a book titled ‘Visual Poetry’. Yesterday I bought it! OUCH! It set me back a few bucks, but, (buts always change things) I think I will take this book on a journey with me, I think this book will help me find my ‘eye’. Thanks Chris Orwig, for writing! My first favorite quote: NAIVE…..I will never let visual apathy set in. I want to see things anew. I want to dream big dreams and let my imagination loose. Learning to see requires that we become a bit quixotic, or naive. Someone who is naive is unlearned, unenlightened, and unconditioned. The Latin root for naive is nativus, which means native, rustic, innate and natural. I can’t think of a better way to approach the world. You could instead choose to follow some of the antonyms for the word naive: blase´, worldly, and refined. Yet that doesn’t sound much fun.
Isn’t that GREAT? Ha, ha! I can’t wait to read on, this is my new favorite book of the moment. I’m going to dig into this book, I’ll let you know how it goes. Who knows? Maybe even I can attain my dreams! But (there it is again), when you attain your dreams, than what………

Champ, a dog without boundaries. Let the good in Champ, keep the bad out.

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