Phil Perkins Photography
This haiku was inspired by a lovely woman and good friend, Annabel. She’s a professional dancer & choreographer, and also a gifted poetess. I encourage guests to visit her web site to enjoy her creative writings – thanks very much!
She dances on clouds
Melting snow from mountain peaks
Cascading beauty
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© 2023 Phil Perkins
PHOTO CREDIT: modified photo from unsplash.com.
Shallow water laps up onto shore, then recedes back into the lake. Eventually, small common stones become smooth. Seen here in a few inches of water along the coast of Lake Superior, this photograph might be the perfect accent piece you’ve been looking for. To see prints and other items available featuring my photography, you can visit these shops…
Haiku
Water with wrinkles
Natural beauty reflects
Gems tumbled in time
© 2022 Phil Perkins
And It Stoned Me, by Van Morrison (1970) – see lyrics here.
Today is the day
Put your plans into action
Time waits for no one
© 2022 Phil Perkins
PHOTO CREDIT: modified photo from unsplash.com.
Music and Design
Songs that I’m listening to this morning while working with photography and/or creating designs…
Thinking about space after reading an article (Big Bang Impossible: Galaxies that weren’t supposed to exist) outlining recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, I woke up this morning and wrote this poem…
Haiku
One stone, then again
Human lineage transcends
Astronaut sojourn
© 2022 Phil Perkins
Space Debris
You can find my original artwork on a variety of great products when you visit these shops: Society 6, Redbubble, Tee Public, Pixels and Cafepress. Thank you!
Music
Space Oddity by David Bowie (1969) – see lyrics here.
Haiku
High above the clouds
Evergreens embrace the sun
Expansive nature
© 2022 Phil Perkins
Prints
View from Clingmans Dome in North Carolina – prints available here.
Song for Today
Carolina in My Mind, by James Taylor (1969) – see lyrics here.
After reading “Maravilha” (Portuguese, meaning “The Wonderful”) by a beautiful and talented writer hailing from Lisbon, Portugal, Carla Milho – wherein she conveys sentiments of love, sincerity & happiness – I was inspired to write this haiku…
Crafted with magic
Drawing two hearts together
An artist of love
© 2022 Phil Perkins
Magic Carpet Ride – by Steppenwolf (1968) – see lyrics here
Once more, as before
Her beauty draws pen to hand
Déjà vu haiku
© 2022 Phil Perkins
PHOTO CREDIT: modified photo from unsplash.com.
Digital collage artwork of melting musical compact disks, with grunge effects and abstract typographic overlay. You can visit these galleries for great products:
Haiku
CD’s in the sun
Melting songs some sang for fun
Digitally spun
© 2022 Phil Perkins
Music and Design
Songs that I’m listening to this morning while working with photography and/or creating designs…
After seeing Draadklossen (Dutch language, meaning Bobbins), a creative composition by my dear friend, Inge David – she’s a wonderful photographer from Belgium who specializes in black and white, especially interesting automotive and macro captures – I was inspired to write this poem…
Haiku
Threading clear insight
Through her photographic eye
Stitching life in stills
© 2022 Phil Perkins
PHOTO CREDIT: modified photo from unsplash.com
I think I've got something! What is it? A haiku. God bless you! No, it's a poem. Have you had it long...is it contagious?
Like the common cold
It is nothing to sneeze at
– words may serve to heal
© 2022 Phil Perkins
PHOTO CREDIT: modified photo from unsplash.com.
See lyrics here → On the Road to Find Out, by Cat Stevens (1970)
This photograph features cascades on the Middle Prong Little River, located in the Tremont section of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Many prints are available for your home, office, or, as a gift to give to family and/or friends, when you visit my galleries at Pixels and Redbubble. There are other items to see, also. Thanks!
Currents in concourse
Chaotic, carving cascades
Creating contours
© 2022 Phil Perkins
This is a saying which I first heard from my father, and this photograph – taken along Lynn Camp Prong in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee – is illustrative. If interested, you can visit my shops at Pixels, Redbubble, ArtFlakes and ArtPal, for great prints and gifts!
I’ve also written poetry which is available on a poster at Zazzle – simply scroll to the bottom to select the best suited custom size.
Haiku
Chasing gravity
Carving its path in a race
Water always wins
© 2021 Phil Perkins
Based on her comment regarding my recent visit to the Blue Ridge Parkway, in North Carolina, the talented & lovely Arizonian poetess – Michele Lee Sefton – provided inspiration for me to write this poem:
Morning in Mountains
Drawn to dawn of day
Nature reveals her beauty
Rejoice in warm love
© 2021 Phil Perkins
This photograph is available on prints in my gallery.
The following haiku was inspired by a friend, poetess and author Michele Lee Sefton, relating to her writers retreat in the Cascades…
A pen in the pines
Poetic vision sublime
Heartstrings into lines
© 2021 Phil Perkins
PHOTO CREDIT: modified photo from unsplash.com.
Illumination
Moonlight stirs natures spirit
In waves on the sand
© 2021 Phil Perkins
PHOTO CREDIT: modified photo from unsplash.com.
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