“Love”
This sky where we live
is no place to lose your wings
so love love love
– Hafiz
Image: “Love,” from birthday photo shoot “Turning Two!”
© Heidi Straube 2013
The Inner Path of Photography
We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.
Category: Poetry and Photography
February 12, 2013
October 8, 2012
“Dance”
Totally immersing myself in Life
I start each day
Remembering to dance.
See more photos from event Stephan Koplowitz “Natural Acts in Artificial Water”
Houston, Texas, Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park May 19, 2012
Image “Waterwall Dancer Trio” © Heidi Straube 2012
October 2, 2012
“Mermaid”
“I must be a mermaid, Rango.
I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
Quote: Anais Nin, from “The Four Chambered Heart”
© 2012 Heidi Straube Images “Mermaid Running,” “Mermaid Reflecting”
August 21, 2012
“Surrender”
I invited her to lunch
and a ride home after our swim.
“Well,” she said, with that twinkle in her eye.
“I’d rather we meet later for a drink and a smoke.”
My 80+ friend, this guardian angel
She’s gone.
What to do with the sadness and loss
Seeing it coming does not make it less.
Surrender.
To my images of memory
her tottering to the lanes
One day nearly blown over by the rain and the wind
Still swimming for life
(although this time did scare her)
Surrender.
To the laughter we shared
trading life’s moments of absurdity and love
Bodies, men, street signs
all taken lightly.
She would want me to surrender.
To heartache, then possibilities.
“Go on out there,” she’d say to my crazy ideas, “Go do it!”
I will.
Would you like to hear me reading my poem “Surrender?”
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