Magenta is the color of the dust that dances
in between the branches of
the green
trees

which sit in the shade of the golden sun
and orange is the color of
sunshine

before the droplets of blue rain
soak the earth a deep
rich brown

and a rainbow is simply
an optical illusion
of light

reminding us that the earth
is full of magical
things

just waiting to
happen

 

mindgallery . twitter

 

 

 

As we ease into early September, now is the time to appreciate and enjoy the still-colorful natural world that’s around us. The earth is full of magical things just waiting to happen and winter will be one of them.

There is no satisfying answer sometimes
but we try to navigate
the

warm socks and hard
knocks any
way

–

And as i stepped into the sunlight
i realized i was
laughing

and i was
light

 

mindgallery . twitter

 

 

 

This mindgallery poem from the Brooklyn Missed Connections is a partial re-mix of prior work plus a previously unseen photo. While I love the “standard” mindgallery images – jellyfish, Bansky, hippo – this one is such visual candy. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something red.

Beneath the urban sprawl and underneath it all
environmental heat was baking the
kitchen so stop wishing
it wasn’t climate
change

and rearrange your thinking
so the Earth can
breathe

and the rest of us
can breathe
easy

–

Corridors flooded
with the
past

but underneath
the green
grass

fertile seeds
push

through to
start

Anew

 

water . air . earth . love . laundry . mindgallery . twitter

 

 

 

Humans like to believe the false assumption that we’re omnipotent. That we can bend the Earth to our will and treat it recklessly. If there’s anything COVID-19 has shown us, it’s that the giant blue marble we live on is also skilled in the practice self-preservation.

Carrying our cares and woes in rows
of three, exasperated and
spent we
went

as the timeless tide and luminous
glow bathed our body in
the ebb and
flow

neither saints nor sinners
but just absolute
beginners

and the older we got
the more we
saw

the lines that
connect us
all

 

mindgallery . twitter

 

 

 

This long-ago mindgallery poem features an image I have not seen before. I can’t identify where it was taken but I like the connection it makes between these dream-like representations of two different species. We are all connected in some way.