Autumn Kaleidoscope

Lake Nockamixon, photo courtesy of Michael Bixler

Autumn Kaleidoscope

Autumn leaves

Colors floating

In kaleidoscope

On the dusky lake

Autumn leaves

A void in the trees

Blanketing the forest floor

In orange and red majesty

© October 22, 2014, Robbie Pruitt

Sky Pier

 Kiss the Sky, photo courtesy of Michael Bixler, http://mmbixler.tumblr.com

Sky Pier

What if the stairway to heaven

Was a weathered and tattered road

Elevated and broken

Steady and upward sloping

Covered in graffiti and kissing the sky

Accentuating the chasm

Demanding arms wide open

And a leap of faith as grand as the void

Stand steady in fear of height

In wonder of what has been

And all that transcends our sight

Kiss the sky and leap with all your might


© July 20, 2014, Robbie Pruitt

Nativity

Church of the Nativity Demo at 11th & Mt. Vernon, 
by Michael Bixler

Nativity

The Church

Has left

The building

Birthed from

Demolition

To Immanuel

No building

To contain

The Almighty

Omnipresent

To dwell

The building

Has left

The Church

Free from

Enclosure

God is with us

Spirit

In the hearts

Of humanity

Like Dove

Will perch

© August 1, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

This poem, Nativity, was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, August 6, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

My friend Michael Bixler is an excellent photographer, artist, writer, videographer and “adventurer” who took the photo above, Church of the Nativity Demo at 11th & Mt Vernon. Like much of his work, it captivated me and inspired the poem Nativity. Bixler has provoked me to poetry with Motel and Ghost Lake back in October of 2012, with his photo Late Autumn Epiphany in November, and with Homage back in December of 2012. I am a huge fan of his work and am grateful he allows me to use his art as my muse. To see more of Michael Bixler’s work, click here, here, or here.

Pine Barren

In The Pines, photo courtesy of Michael Bixler, 
© March 17, 2013

Pine Barren

Blood cries

From the ground

Desolate

My heart

Pines

Barren

Tall stalks

Tower

Long walks

Buried beneath

Overtures

Bleak

© January 7, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

My friend Michael Bixler is an excellent photographer, artist, writer, videographer and “adventurer” who took the photo above of the Pine Barrens, In The Pines. Like much of his work, this photo captivated me and inspired the poem Pine Barren. Bixler has provoked me to poetry with Motel back in October of 2012, Ghost Lake also in October of 2012, Late Autumn Epiphany last November, and Homage back in December of 2012, I am a huge fan of his work and am grateful he allows me to use his art as my muse. To see more of Michael Bixler’s work, click here, here, or here.

Motel

Apple Tree Motel, photo courtesy of Michael Bixler

Motel

Hum of night

Red glow Catskills

Flicker of light

Neon Mountain stills

Motel—taillights

The road hums

To the Apple Tree

The chill of night

Numbs—red fades to red

Distance on our side

Slide Mountain—slide

© October 29, 2012, Robbie Pruitt

My friend Michael Bixler is an excellent photographer, artist, writer, videographer and “adventurer” who took the photo above. Like much of his work, it captivated me and inspired the poem Motel. Bixler has provoked me to poetry with Ghost Lake back in October of 2012, with his photo Late Autumn Epiphany last November, and with Homage back in December of 2012, I am a huge fan of his work and am grateful he allows me to use his art as my muse. To see more of Michael Bixler’s work, click here, here, or here.

The Apple Tree Motel: http://appletreemotelcatskills.com/Home/Contact

The Apple Tree Motel sign during the day: https://plus.google.com/101311750252424984639/about?hl=en

Homage

“Slanted Halo,” Photo courtesy of Michael Bixler, 
© December 14, 2012 

Homage

Flicker

Light

Glow

Hope

Slanted

Halo

Silence

Aura  

Woe

Light

In dark palm

Radiance

Faith glows

Slanted Halo

The day goes

Accolade

Tribute  

Hope stayed

© December 14, 2012, Robbie Pruitt

My friend Michael Bixler is an excellent photographer, artist, writer, videographer and “adventurer” who took the photo above. Like much of his work, it captivated me and inspired the poem Homage. Bixler provoked me to poetry with Ghost Lake back in October of 2012 and last November with his photo Late Autumn Epiphany. I am a huge fan of his work and am grateful he allows me to use his art as my muse. To see more of Michael Bixler’s work, click here, here, here, or here.

Ghost Lake

Ghost Lake, photo courtesy of Michael Bixler, 

© September 9, 2012 

My friend Michael Bixler is an excellent photographer, artist, writer, videographer and “adventurer.” He took this photo, Ghost Lake, while on a hike recently and like much of his work, it captivated me and inspired the following poem by the same title. Bixler provoked me to poetry last November as well with his photo Late Autumn Epiphany. I am a huge fan of his work and am grateful he allows me to use his art as my muse. To see more of Michael Bixler’s work, click here, here, here, or here.

Ghost Lake

In shapeless void
Spirit hovers over water
Deep cries out to deep
Formlessness bends and shifts
Under the Wind’s drifts
Blackness and echoing howl
Swirls of windblown ripple and mist
Calmness emerges at burst of light
Disorder and chaos simmers
Blackness gives way to purple hue
The sea calms and glimmers
Shape emerges at close of day
Light dances about and shimmers


© September 9, 2012, Robbie Pruitt


"The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." –Genesis 1:2