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To be a white bird
To be a white bird
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Challenge: Horizon Line (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Date: Dec 5, 2010
Galleries: Blur
Date Uploaded: Dec 5, 2010

 And this was the shape of her desire:
To be a white bird beating its wings against night.
Beating until that was all. To be. Yet not the bird. Or night. Or the air. Or the beating.
To be a white bird.

Chris Abani

Statistics
Place: 85 out of 94
Avg (all users): 5.0074
Avg (commenters): 6.9091
Avg (participants): 5.0909
Avg (non-participants): 4.9506
Views since voting: 809
Views during voting: 280
Votes: 136
Comments: 21
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 12/14/2010 09:14:35 AM
thank you les
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 12/14/2010 08:51:28 AM
beautiful.
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 12/13/2010 07:35:45 PM
- You got an XPrize, for my highest rated images that came lowest in the final rankings.

A lovely, dark and soft image. It lets us see our desires. Stunning.
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 12/13/2010 12:20:00 PM
One of my favourites, love it.
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 12/13/2010 12:19:31 PM
I love it all the more with that poem inside it.
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 12/13/2010 10:37:40 AM
A nine from me. I loved your white bird.
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 12/13/2010 06:08:49 AM
Awesome! I gave a poem to Les! All unbeknownst... And SHE, she had a poem in the notes! Poets united!
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 12/13/2010 12:11:47 AM
Congrats on making the PH gallery! Maybe he'll hang it next to mine :-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/12/2010 10:09:42 PM
Posthumous Art Gallery

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 12/12/2010 05:33:35 PM
i can see the bird!
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 12/12/2010 05:22:14 PM
This is definitely a candidate for the Posthumous award.
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 12/12/2010 04:12:03 PM
Not gloriously, but sadly, hanging on,
the White Ship trembles at the verge of dawn.
The Paper Albatross dips, and reveals
(in the White wings) a Whiteness that conceals.

'No way home against the wind!' taunts porpoise,
the while sharks nibble madly at the corpus
delicti, and some Whale-Judge from a Black sea
steams at the universe of poetry.

Words whirled, the White Words, vanish without trace.
Moray's a bailiff with a yawning face.
Anemone greets Hydra in the jury;
both bored, they stifle yawns ΓΆ€” it's an old story,

Brueghel's Icarus uttering once again
(this time in verse) the solitude of pain.
The Judge, of course, has heard it all before;
he thinks, in fact, that poetry is a bore

And has no business standing at the bench.
He wanders. He dreams of some fluky wench,
and hears, at a great distance, his Brothers singing.
He is the Whale, and the White Ship winging

Its hapless course is surface-bound forever,
chaste in the wind ΓΆ€” the wind that whispers 'Never!'
to all who plead the case of the raped poem,
the Word that, wounded, cannot find its home.

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It's a poem I wrote 20 years ago, and the image brings it back to my mind. Thanks for that. Lovely image. Bump to 9 from me.
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 12/10/2010 09:34:46 PM
This is freakin' awesome.

I've just spent numerous minutes with your photo.

Yes, still awesome. One of my favorites.
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 12/10/2010 06:13:15 AM
At the beginning there is just a horizon, and then the birds and distant clouds emerge out of the sky emulsion. Thanks for the experience.
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 12/10/2010 01:22:08 AM
Too blurry
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 12/07/2010 04:47:18 PM
I find this image a bit too abstract and obscure to fit the bill for this challenge theme. Came back to this image for another look. I think I see a lighthouse and a seagull. But the whole image is just too blurry for me. I actually get a bit cross-eyed looking at it. I am sure you had your own reasons for presenting it this way though.
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 12/06/2010 10:50:16 PM
i love the out-of-the-box entries in this challenge. 7
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 12/06/2010 07:23:44 PM
Very neat image. Love the oof.
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 12/06/2010 12:06:25 PM
This image makes me want to stare at it until things come into focus. I think it helps if I cross my eyes and squint a little. The essence of a moment in time.
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 12/06/2010 09:26:28 AM
Oh, now I'll be thinking of Jefferson Starship's "White Bird" all day. :)
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 12/06/2010 02:29:18 AM
I like the ethereal look
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