Picture/Poems by Cliff Crego In every picture,   there's a poem; In every poem,     a picture. Chinese Proverb

An exhibition of 72 photographs made in the heart of the European Alps, with accompanying poems and texts. The images are displayed in four weekly octets, each with a guest signature poem

Week V                                                       

"Every leaf a miracle."    Walt Whitman (click on image to go to the Whitman quote, or click here to go PicturePage Week V ) Week V: Text only Purchase P/P Photos online View Slideshow: [400 + imnages] The Alps-- portrait of a mountain community

V (1) Walking the World: On Freedom and Water in Flowing Movement (also: the essay on being lost and the possibility of change, The Pause ) V (2) Leaves  The signature poem of the Fall Display: "Pe:rhaps leaves fall simply to carry away all that we thought/we need to say..." V (3) On Paths  The pass is clearly in view/ but the way— how hopelessly confused. V (4) First/Last A trio of 37-step poems: "This patience of trees/ an unmovable trust of the earth upon which they stand..." (also: a longer cycle of 15 such miniatures, called Ridge Crossing ) V (5) Departure Tree   "When the cup is broke / and no more use, where does the circle go?" (also: Fireweed Poems: Romances (1) and (2); (3) and (4) V (6) Rilke: Death Experience "But when you left, a strip of reality  broke upon the stage..."  (also: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: New Translations by Cliff Crego) V (7) Neon Graffiti: Four Easy Steps           ...Four easy steps to a radically new popular music: (1) don't play 4/4; (2) don't say..." V (8) The Open Window   Birds don't stay long in one place. Or is this just the way of birds and trees?

Week VI                                                        

"There's nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."    Ansel Adams (click on image to go to the Adams saying, or click here to go PicturePage Week VI ) Watershed map of the area of the European Alps where the photos were made. (click on map) Week VI: Text only

VI (1) Walking the World: On Form and Water in Flowing Movement. "Form emerges out of movement; it is the outward envelop of the pulse of life." (also: see the longer poem in rounds, Little Stone Man ) VI (2) More Leaves "...and the orchestra of strings stops now listening, to tune and tune again..." VI (3) Barn Work "A farmer's life is measured by the pitchfork fulls, of hay, of..." VI (4) The Beech and the "Eye of the Moor" "Each day, the beech renews its romance with the space into which it has grown so slowly and knows so well..." _________________________________ VI (5) The Broken Lance "...forcing the water to move through straight iron pipes, aligned to the axis of a cross." VI (6) Rilke: A Walk "Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunny one, at the end of the path I've only just begun..." (also: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: New Translations by Cliff Crego) VI (7) Neon Graffiti: At the Keyboard "Tap, tap,  t a p....." VI (8) High Country Moor "...a bit cold and lost, but what does it matter / the way only goes down from here." (also: another poem and photograph from the same cycle, High Country Moor # 13: "Deep, fluffy snowshoe snow, covering color, rocks, small trees...")

Week VII                                                        

"Among twenty snowy/ mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the black bird."    Wallace Stevens (click on image to go to the Stevens quote, or click here to go PicturePage Week VII ) Calendar of festivals of the Solar Year (click on image) Week VII: Text only

VII (1) Walking the World: On Music, Poetry and Flowing Movement. "What makes music or poetry new...is the strength of resonance its energy has with the repertoire of metaphysical and spiritual urgencies of the present moment."  VII (2) More Leaves: Maple Symmetry  A Die Falls "The die comes to rest on a '3'/ but we need a '2' since one of thing makes no difference..." VII (3) A Daisy of Dry Meadows "No stone, but a song which snaps shut resolutely..." VII (4) Ringing the Changes at Candlemas "The children light candles for each star in the night sky ...." _________________________________ VII (5) The Passageway "Have you ever noticed how the shape of the earth always seems to be asking us questions?" VII (6) Rilke: Love Song "And yet everything which touches us, you and me, takes us together like a single bow..." (also: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: New Translations by Cliff Crego) VII (7) Neon Graffiti: Simplicity "In Politics, the most radical idea is simplicity; In Art..." (see also: An American Triptych , a longer wayside cycle) VII (8) High Country Moor "...for the first time, the sight of amethyst stars." (also: another poem and photograph from the same cycle, High Country Moor # 13: "Deep, fluffy snowshoe snow, covering color, rocks, small trees...")

Week VIII: A Week of Doubles                                

"...with a joy like that of celestial paradise..."    Hildegard    von Bingen (click on image to go to the von Bingen Antiphon, or click here to go PicturePage Week VIII ) Also: a special double epigram at Red Ribbons: Kabir and Stevens Week VIII: Text only To see and hear the musical scores for Stone Pine Mountain Wanderer, and other poems, go to The Circle in the Square a new music/poetry performance project by Cliff Crego

VIII (1) Walking the World: On Art, the Artist and Balance in Flowing Movement. "Perhaps the only thing we can know for sure about creativity is what it is not..." VIII (2) More Leaves: This Is the Time  Two Rhyming Children's Poems "This is the time the maple trees glow..." and Soybean Pie! text (also: score for double children's choir: Soybean Pie!: score ) VIII (3) On Paths IV Special Delivery "Each morning, when I go out to get the mail, I feel a secret desire to find...." VIII (4) Two Little Poems about Nothing Zero and No Reply "This waiting for that which does not come, perhaps, will not come....." _________________________________ VIII (5) Mountain Time  "Tears freeze instantly/ gazing out into all the airy distance." Flatland "Does one ever really arrive in Flatland?" (see also: Omphalos "Space...") VIII (6) Rilke: "The last house..." "The little village is but a place of transition, expectant and afraid, between two vast distances..." (see also: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: New Translations by Cliff Crego; and Im Bild for a collection of images with Rilke poems) VIII (7) Neon Graffiti: GENOME and FALLACY "Changing but a single note/in a Beethoven symphony might..." BASIC BALLOT  "Vote yes for no!" To see all of these little tragic-comic, spiritual-political though-poems together, go to Neon Graffiti (also: An American Triptych , a longer wayside cycle) VIII (8) Two Little Poems about Everything One Morning and Stone Mountains "If I carry the mountain in my heart, pick up the stone/ is to pick up the mountain."