Four Instagram photo-poems

Here is a small selection of haiku and senryu photo-poems from my Instagram account: two from my “typewriter series”, and two from my “handwriting series”.

I hope you enjoy them!  :- )

 

 

 

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More of my Instagram photo-poems can be found at www.instagram.com/billwaterspoet.

Oh, and regarding my poem “out on a limb”, I used a broken twig I found on the ground for that shot. I would never stick a thumbtack into a living tree.  ;- )

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Paint so cracked

paint so cracked and blistered

a fresh coat of sunlight

can’t make it new

Photo (c) Cheryl Jackson (www.cheryljacksonoddphotog.com).

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Faded memories

faded green

faded blue

faded memories

Photo (c) Cheryl Jackson (www.cheryljacksonoddphotog.com).

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Fun with Txt2Pic (part 2)

It’s easy — just…

* Choose template

* Type text

* Save image to device

* Upload for all the world to see

Thank you, Txt2Pic (photos 1, 2, 4, 5) and AtomSmasher (photo 3) for enabling me to create a world where poems (seem to) dot the landscape.  ;- )

For more Txt2Pic fun…

See my previous post Fun with Txt2Pic (part 1) for a few more images and some links, too.

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Fun with Txt2Pic (part 1)

At last: some signs that lit-loving people would really enjoy reading. Thank you, txt2pic.com!   ;- )

Writers of very, very short things, give it a try — it’s fun!

Pizza King sign: http://bit.ly/YSN5E3

Keep Out sign: http://bit.ly/1tftjOm

Adopt This Road sign: http://bit.ly/1meCTzT

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They steal the scene!

they steal the scene!

miles and piles of clouds

above Haarlem

View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overeen, 17th century, Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia (bit.ly/1s6vtNi).

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Weathered bricks

flaming ochre, burnt orange —

weathered bricks

in a worn-out wall

Photo (c) Jennifer Thompson.

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Striding into the future!

striding into the future!

bulky bronze fabric

ripples in the wind

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Umberto Boccioni. Photo courtesy of Wmpearl via Wikimedia Commons (bit.ly/1juCurV).

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Pirate treasure?

pirate treasure?

doubloon-rocks shimmer

in the shallows

Photo (c) Jennifer Thompson.

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