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Four Poems After Photographs, by Gary S. Rosin

6/4/2023

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Dust Storm, Manzanar National Historic Site, photography by Chuck Kimmerle (USA) contemporary

Tower and Shadows
 
This tower still looms
in the dust of history,
still guards the shadows,
 
still watches over ruins,
the lost Japanese gardens,
 
still haunts fading memories.
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Silence in the Mist, photography by George Digalakis (Greece) 2023

Silence in the Mist
  
in this silence
the far shore a rumor
only stillness
 
no wake in the water
rocks this empty rowboat
 
sitting and reflecting

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Untitled, photography by Roberto Sysa Moiola (Italy) 2023

Shamans
 
Aurora and snow
bend the backs of these trees--
sudden shamans
 
struggle their way across
barrens in the moonlight,
 
try to reach the fallen.

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Feather, Sand, Bubbles, photography by Krista McCuish (Canada) 2023.

​Fallen Feather
 
feather under ice
caught with bubbles on the sand
seabirds hop and fly…
 
does a bird feel a flutter
every time a feather falls
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or does it just shake it off

Gary S. Rosin

Gary S. Rosin’s poetry has appeared in various literary reviews and anthologies, in contemporary haibun, dadakuku, Failed Haiku, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Texas Poetry Calendar, The Ekphrastic Review’s Perkins Challenge, and The Wild Word. He has two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing 1990), and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum 2008). His poems “Viewing the Dead,” and “Black Dogs,” were nominated for Pushcart Prizes.


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