Beyond the Lens

 

As summer

leans into autumn

 

Memories

 

of halcyon days framed in

 the eye of your prismatic lens

 

Gathering

 

on pebbled beaches, lined

with moated castles

 

Reflecting

 

in waves of nostalgia,

exposed in black and white

 

Musing

 

in the piercing echoes

of screeching gulls

 

 

Searching

 

the remains of

what was left behind

 

Flooding

 

your darkroom with

 mercurial moon light

 

Twilight

 

lengthening as day

kneels to dusk

 

beyond the lens

 

 

 

 

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Paulette Calasibetta is a retired interior designer, with a life-long passion to write poetry; she is inspired by the creative images rooted in the power of words. Her focus is on nature’s ever-changing landscape, and the complexity of the human condition. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. 

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