Haiku - Ekphrastic Escher Series 2
Liberation
Water flowing down
Source of liminal waters
Liberty, birds fly
Encounter
Zoetrope unravels
The solemn handshake the wise
Shadows of balance
Liberation
Magic scroll transmutes
Sharp angles to birds’ free flight
Morph null into life
Square Limit
Escher fish swirling
Koi swim over each other
Infinite edges
Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell)
Dark and light belief
Limited infinity
Heaven Hell entwined
Dragon
Clutching crystal perch
Consuming infinity
Wyvern enigma
R. W. Stephens is a native of California, born in San Francisco. Now living in Oakland across the bay. There was a sojourn to Wisconsin for university, then a return home with a BS in English. He has had an interesting life, from working in a nuclear power plant to making specialty contact lenses with a week as a guest in a rural village in central China in between. He has been published in several Lothlorien Poetry Journal Anthologies, Synchronized Chaos, and second place in an International Literary Contest Nature 2023. He is the organizer and coordinator for a small writing group based in Hayward, California. “Feeling pain is easy. Feeling another's pain and responding is not a gift. It is a necessity for humanity.” rws
I like your relationship to birds, flight and shadows. It sounds you. I mean the way I see you over the years. You are a nice man, Bob. I always thought so. Still do@
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