JOY's FAVORITE FOTOS: Image Poetry Group

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2016/09/image-poetry-group.html

"Image Poetry is a project created by a group of photographers from around the world. Every week, members shoot images or use their photo archives based on a concept from a verse from a poem or song and submit 3 photos. The common denominator is a love of photography and the desire to learn more."
http://www.image-poetry.com

Happy to join Image Poetry in August 2016. - Joy

All photos/material on this site are under copyright © Joy Krauthammer and may be copied only with permission from Joy Krauthammer, and may not be altered.

Image Poetry Group 2018

Image Poetry Group 2018 - week 1

“What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” by Nancy Wilson

"Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight
When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night"

Midnight New Year's Eve

"whose arms will hold you good and tight?"

Yikes, where are my arms?

Image Poetry Group 2017

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 52

IPG wk 52 “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

"“Out of the night that covers me

from pole to pole

I thank G*d

For my unconquerable soul.

…I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my sole"

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2016/09/image-poetry-group.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus

Selfie © Joy Krauthammer

"Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the weaving“

"from edge to edge I thank G*d

For my unconquerable soul.

…I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my shuttle"

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 51

You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

“You’ve got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch.”

“You’re as cuddly as a cactus”

"You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile”

"You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel.”

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/g/grinch/your_a_mean_one_mr_grinch.html

“You’re as cuddly as a cactus”

© Joy Krauthammer

"You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile”

© Joy Krauthammer

“You’ve got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch.”

© Joy Krauthammer

"You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel.”

“You’re as cuddly as a cactus”

© Joy Krauthammer

“You’re as cuddly as a cactus”

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 50

Heat Miser Snow Miser Song by This Year Without a Santa Claus

"Oh, some like it hot, but I like it

REALLY hot! Hee hee!

He's Mister Green Christmas"

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/Unknown-Artist-heat-miser-snow-miser-song-lyrics.html

"I never want to know a day

That's over forty degrees

I’m Ms. Snow”

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 49

“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” by Phish

“You wanna go where everybody knows your name.

Where everybody knows your name.

And they’re always glad you came.”

http://www.metrolyrics.com/where-everybody-knows-your-name-cheers-theme-lyrics-phish.html

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 48

Whitman

"A noiseless patient spider,

I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,

Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,

It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,

Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45473

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 47

“What’s Going On” by Marvin Gaye

“You know we’ve got to find a way

To bring some lovin’ here today

War is not the answer

For only Love can conquer hate."

http://www.metrolyrics.com/whats-going-on-lyrics-marvin-gaye.html

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 46

Giyani My Homeland by Ndzalama Tshabalala

Flowers looks beautiful”

""The moonlight outshines the streetlight”

"Where all things are bright and beautiful”

"Indeed Mother Nature chose you,

You're the promising land
Flowers looks beautiful”

"It's like the Garden of Eden
Full of fruit trees
It's sweetest citrus

grapefruits and oranges"

Everyday the sun shine and set
And brightens up the sky

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 45

“Even if it Breaks Your Heart” by Eli Young Band

"From steel guitars to Memphis, all the way to rock and roll

Oh, I can hear em playin’"

"The fire got lit inside a bright-eyed child

Every note just wrapped around her soul"

"Oh, I can hear em playin'

I can hear the ringin of a beat up ol’ guitar”

"Listen to the music playin' every Friday night"

Venezuela's Betsayda Machado (vocal) Y La Parranda El Clavo

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 44

“Wulf and Eadwacer” by Somebody

“When I sat wailing in rain-wracked weather"

and

“He’s as good as wild game given to my folk.”

Tears

Purple Bearded Iris

Tree

Leopard

Sulcata aka African thigh-spurred tortoise turtle

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 43

"It’s Not Easy Being Green" by the Muppets

"It's not that easy being green;
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.

When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold...

But green’s the color of Spring.

It could make you wonder why, but why wonder? Why Wonder, I am green and it’ll do fine, it’s beautiful!

And I think it’s what I want to be."

http://www.metrolyrics.com/its-not-easy-being-green-lyrics-muppets.html

Skip Highway Man - week 42

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 41

"Your Wildest Dreams" by Moody Blues

Blues and Every Color

Inner Garden of Joy

composite by © Joy Krauthammer

"When the music plays
I hear the sound I had to follow
Once upon a time"

"Once upon a time
Once when you* were mine
I remember skies
Reflected in your eyes
I wonder where you are
I wonder if you think about me
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams"

Composite Explanation:

*Gravestone of photographer’s husband, obm, is in middle of room.

Husband loved Moody Blues!

http://visions-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/10/joys-fantasy-room-sukkah-photos-and.html

more Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 41

"Your Wildest Dreams" by Moody Blues

"When the music plays

I hear the sound"

"To sister Joy, One Love, Baba Olatungi

Inner Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer

In my "Wildest Dreams" never imagined myself being a professional percussionist at my age.
In my "Wildest Dreams" never imagined I'd be performing with Babatunde Olatunji...HaShem had other plans...

"When the music plays

I hear the sound"

© Joy Krauthammer

In my "Wildest Dreams" never imagined myself being a professional percussionist at my age.
In my "Wildest Dreams" never imagined I'd be performing with Babatunde Olatunji...HaShem had other plans...

"greets the brand new day"

Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer

"greets the brand new day"

Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer

"greets the brand new day"

Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 40

"Pangur Ban” written in the 8th or 9th century, by an anonymous Irish Benedictine monk who lived in the extant St. Paul's Monastery on Reichenau Island in Lake Constance (Bodensee), where Germany meets with Carinthia, Austria.

"O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!

"So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.

"Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;
I get wisdom day and night
Turning darkness into light."

"Pangur bears me no ill will,
He too plies his simple skill."

“When at home we sit and find

Entertainment to our mind”.

"Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade;"

"Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;"

https://www.fisheaters.com/pangurban.html

Victim's Close Relative

"Oftentimes a mouse will stray

In the hero Pangur's way”

"Hunting mice is his delight”

Judy's ABQ cat

Karen's Kat

Venice Cat

Edith's Caty

"Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;"

Edith and Caty

Image Poetry Group 2017 - week 39

“Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver

"Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze.”