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The Valley
of Dry Bones and The River of Life are the themes of my sabbatical photography
project.
I will be
reflecting on the poems listed below and create photographic images reflecting
the two themes - images of desolation and of renewal - through connecting the
visual images from the poems with the visual images in the nature.
This is how
Muriel Rukeyser describes poetry.
"Poetry
depends on the moving relations within itself.
It is an art that lives in time, expressing and evoking the moving
relation between the individual consciousness and the world. The work that a poem does is a transfer of
human energy, and I think human energy may be defined as consciousness, the
capacity to make change in existing conditions.
It appears to me that to accept poetry in these meanings would make it
possible for people to use it as an 'exercise,' an enjoyment of the possibility
of dealing with the meanings in the world and in their lives."
Muriel
Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry
Here is a list
of poems for my reflection:
The Peace of
Wild Things by Wendell Berry
The Need to
Win by Chuang Tzu
Di Apple of
Har Y’eye by Afua Cooper
A Place to
Sit by Kabir
Tonight
Everyone in the World Is Dreaming the Same Dream by Susan Litwak
A Litany for
Survival by Audre Lorde
Last Night
As I Was Sleeping by Antonio Machado
Learning to
Listen by Darmody Mumford
On Waking by
John O’Donohue
The Journey
by Mary Oliver
The Vast
Ocean Begins Just Outside Our Church: The Eucharist by Mary Oliver
Thirst by
Mary Oliver
Accepting
This by Mark Nepo
Surviving
Has Made Me Crazy by Mark Nepo
Kindness by
Naomi Shihab Nye
The Art of
Disappearing by Naomi Shihab Nye
Love After
Love by Derek Walcott
The World
Has Changed by Alice Walker
