It’s one of my old photos, taken on a large format camera – the roll of film slipped.
A happy accident as I liked the effect so much that I published it as a postcard, and as two different greetings cards.
see – the Julz Cards page, if you want to have a look at my other old cards – smile
one of my postcards (see odds & sods)
she played the flute then
it cried for him
in a forest unknown
with someone’s big dog
resting on her shoulder
ignorant,
she descended the canyon
wandered a day and a night
alone
sleeping on a stone
emerging dusty and triumphant
and late for her flight
picked her up in the night
gave her money to get home
refusing her thanks
and taking nothing in return
bought in London
was never sent
she had lost his address
years later she regrets
her thoughtlessness
and remembers
his act of kindness
in her newly fatherless world
my long forgotten
younger self
stares back at me
the dog at my shoulder
the flute in my hand
and I feel her spirit
come back to me
coal miner
I originally published this on julzcrafts.com, as part of the blogging101 course, but it really belongs here!
And to celebrate this decision, I have also created a permanent page where you can see these photos, and even buy a print, a card or a few postcards, if you so wish – smile: see south wales – sepia mining range.
This original 12″ x 10″ print is available on etsy –
set of 4 mining postcards available at etsy
Whilst working on this blog, with the help of the WordPress Team, and the other hundreds of people on this online course, who come from every part of the globe, I have been reviewing and rethinking, and struggling at times with layouts and exactly what to say.
In my first blog for this course, I put up a couple of images that I published as sepia postcards, and I wondered why I did that, because I took them so long ago! You can see that post HERE.
For whatever reason, I am prompted to put up two more of this set of images, my favourites. There was a small mine a little way up the hill from where I live that was still working with their well-loved pit ponies…
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This is one of a series of postcards I designed and published around 1997 – its a scan of the printed card, as the original design was done so long ago and on another computer, that I don’t even know where the file is !
and these are a few lines I wrote today …… interpret them personally, politically, religiously – any way you choose ……
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