Purple Alium

murray robertson Uncategorized May 19, 2022 1 Minute

Purple Alium

   larger than life
closer than ever

   we want to know
because we're lost
 

      this is a place
we'll never understand

      ravens and crows
from prehistoric days


they sing their songs
      a raucous racket
   in nearby forests

but here we see
      purple aliums

      in a garden
that once was forest

that time is gone


the purpose of an alium
      we'd like to know

but it is unimportant
      what we would like

    we are ignorant
      bit players 
in a universe
seeming not to care

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I make photos to make myself feel good; I share in hope of making you feel good. I do as much as I can in the camera, but it does not always end there. Part of making an image in the 21st century is processing a captured image in the computer. This is like dodging and burning in the darkroom of yesterday. (I've done that.) I use Photoshop cc and Lightroom cc. The result is not always what I saw, maybe what I wish I saw. Sometimes, the resulting image is a creation more than a recording. Most of the time, I keep it believable and realistic. I have a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and my family has had writers in the family tree. My dad loved to tell stories. But I don't think that he made them up. I have shared thousands of my poems on the internet, to a considerable audience and I'm considering making a selection of them, in a book or books. View all posts by murray robertson

Published May 19, 2022

6 thoughts on “Purple Alium”

writingpresence says:

May 20, 2022 at 8:55 am

Good to see this poem today, Murray. Purple Alliums are an important flower for me – and I have one in bud in my new garden here…
Ravens and Crows are also important to me, birds I associate with my new squeeze. Synchronicity strikes again!
Thamks

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1. murray robertson says:
  
  May 22, 2022 at 4:01 am
  
  Thank you writingpresence!
  We have a few purple alliums in our garden. And crows, of course, in western Canada. Clever birds!
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  1. writingpresence says:
    
    May 22, 2022 at 9:07 am
    
    I prefer allium with double l, as you have in your response. Alium means something other…
    
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  2. murray robertson says:
    
    May 22, 2022 at 10:53 pm
    
    Thank you writingpresence!
    Sorry I mis-spelled. When I was a kid, I learned reading and remembered spelling quickly and easily. In the past few years, I have noticed that some spelling isn’t so easy.
    
    Alliums are the onion family. Som I found “Alium” to be the name of a company that does battery research.
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arlenecorwin says:

May 20, 2022 at 10:53 am

You’re right – the universe or multiverses don’t ‘care’, they act according to the laws of nature’s cause/effect. *caring’ is for God alone in Its or His ‘Nature’.

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1. murray robertson says:
  
  May 22, 2022 at 4:08 am
  
  Thank you arlenecorwin!
  Maybe her nature. I’ve never had a sense that God had a gender. That seems presumptious to me.
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