Sunrise
Prime time loosed Laudes shades
Colors fly on clouds at dawn
Sunflowers’ faces looking east
Contemplating eschaton
Drama of their world
Between what is and what will be
A risen sun, the end of summer
From Terce to Sext to Nones is eternity
Arcoíris pulls on Vespers
Eternal promise lights cut dim
Sun checks out at Compline
Martins tucks it in
Sunflowers tall bow their heads
Rooted firmly holding sand
Contemplating darkness see
The end is at hand
Sunset
Off Center & Not Even 
Especially love that rainbow!
Thanks, Susan.
Spectacular sunset! Your words and photos are a beautiful visual escape. I saw a double rainbow during yesterday’s sunrise meditation. It wasn’t even raining.
Thanks, Michele. Virga, when rain or snow doesn’t hit the ground, is common in our high desert climates. Virgas will produce rainbows, sun devils and iridescent clouds.
Mother nature never ceases to amaze me. 💚
Beautiful Timothy 🌹
Thanks, Gabriela. Our poor sunflowers know there is only 21 days of summer left.
My pleasure. True but they look beautiful now.
They are putting on their best faces before the end of summer.
BTW I’ve been promoting your poetry contest. Some bloggers have been put off thinking they have to buy your book. I’ve assured people they can find some of the poems on your blog. I’ve also noted that buying your book is a fraction of the cost of entering photo, art and music contests. At least you get a great book if one chooses to buy your book. There is also concern about self promotion. Well. That’s the point if you publish a book. Otherwise, what’s the point of publishing a book if you are not going to promote it? I think your poetry contest based on how people are inspired by your poems is brilliant, and a great way to promote your book.
I am glad that they are putting on their best faces. They are wonderful faces 😊
Thank you so much for your help and your kind words Timothy. They mean a lot to me. Unfortunately I cannot please everyone. However, I will continue to work for a while and do the best for this community. I will try to promote others as much as I can. This is me. I am responsible for who I am. They are responsible for who they are. It is sad that people gossip but it is not something I did not expect.
We are sending purrs and love to everyone. Have a great evening 🐈⬛🥰🌹
I not sure it’s so much gossip as misunderstanding. We support and promote each others as much as possible. it’s also ok to promote ourselves.
Timothy, you are wonderful. I always appreciated and admired the friend and the great artist in you. I know you are also an intelligent and principled man. I am the one who put up the contest. If anyone has any questions or concerns they can ask me. And I will stop here. I will not elaborate further.
In my four years of blogging I have seen many bloggers giving up. I regret that this community drove out of WP two of the best writers I have ever read. Both males, both brilliant. What the community could not take it was their talent. I tried to keep them going but they could not stand the meanness of some of their followers. They found a home on other social media platforms probably for the best.
I am most grateful to many bloggers here who support me and I will always be. There is a lot of love going around. I am humbled by it every day. There are also people who mock my writings, who want to burn my house down and people who want to blow my brains off. Nothing surprises me anymore. And I will stop here. I said enough.
Again my deepest gratitude to you and to those who support me🙏🥰🌹😊
I don’t understand wear the meanness comes from. I’ve known some brilliant writers and thinkers who have also been driven off of WP by mean, nasty people. It’s really to bad. We are here to express our art and support each other. If you don’t like what someone does, simply move on.
What a wonderful poem, Tim. It almost eclipses the sunflowers and rainbows—almost.
Thanks, KT.
What lovely words! The pictures are so ethereal. It’s like you took a camera to heaven to capture that and got back here to post it on WordPress 😜😀 So surreal!
Thanks for the wonderful comment, Sam.
The colours in the photographs are so beautiful and spectacular. Great post, Tim!
Thanks, Herman.
Aw, this is gorgeous. And your words are marvellously hopeful .
Thanks, Shey. Yes. The time between what is and what will be offers so many things, but it goes by more quickly every season.
I very much enjoy your words and pictures!:) I would never have expected Eschaton to be so beautiful! Best regards
Thanks, Martina. I’m not using eschaton as it is traditionally used.
I am sorry, Timothy, but I would, of course, very much appreciate your accessory explanations!😀
Eschaton in Greek means “the end”. Eschatology in Christianity is teaching about “the end” and the goings on in the world as it is “already” with a risen Christ, and what it will be since Christ has “not yet” returned to the Parousia (Greek for presence used to refer to the second coming of Christ). In later Christian theology eschatology is the doctrine of the “four last things”: death, the last judgment, hell, and heaven.
I’m using eschaton as the end for the sunflowers. For sunflowers “already” is the “risen sun” instead of the “risen Son” for Christians. In Christianity the end of time is when Christ returns, for the sunflowers the end of time is the end of summer when colder temperatures return. For most Christians, and everybody else in the world, life goes after the world ends for the sunflowers.
Are those sufficient accessory explanations?
Thank you so much Timothy for having taken the time to give me this kind and interesting explanation of eschaton and its various interpretations:)
All the best:)
You are welcome, Martina.
If this is the end, my friend… I’ll take it! Your eschaton contemplation is a wonder, images & words! 🙏🌻🙏
Thanks, Marina. The end is truly at hand for our forest of sunflowers. I’m stretching the eschaton into nature. But why not? It’s been a few thousand years that the end has been at hand for humanity. Yet here we are in the twilight of another millennium, humanity still handing out grief, and there is no real end in sight.
All very true…
I was however referring to your blissful “freeze frames” and words, now immortalized! 😉
I especially love that rainbow too, Tim! May the end of the world hold off for a bit. Still so much to enjoy.
ciao Timothy
I’m really enjoying your poetry, and of course, your amazing photos, thank you for sharing!🌻
You are welcome, Tiffany. I’m happy you are enjoying the poems along with the photos.
Very cool captures!
Thanks, YellowCable.
Your poem has made me see a preacher man sunflower in your fine image, just right of centre, scaring a congregation of sunflowers.
I’m sure that’s what it’s doing. But he’s right about the end is at hand. Thanks, Susan.
Tim, these shots are spectacular!
Your contemplation prose is right on.
Wonderful!!!!!
Thanks, Resa.
I had to look up eschaton. Your poem and images are sublime.
Ha! I have to confess with all those bean and rice burritos I been eating, I have been rather vaporous lately.
Buahahaha! You kill me!
Phenomenal words and photos, Tim.
Thanks, Mary Jo.
Had to do some research on some of those verses! Rich colors in those shots.
Thanks, Brian.
A most beautiful picture. I enjoyed your poem. Summer is over and you are heading towards winter. We are just going into summer following our spring of about 1 week. A funny place, Southern Africa, we really only have one long 9-month summer and 3 months of winter.
We get 4 months of summer and 4 months and then 1.5 to 2 months of spring and autumn in between. Thanks, Roberta.
Wow what a beautiful poem and that picture should be put up for sale Tim! It’s surreal! 👏👏❣️❣️
Thanks, Cindy. Anyone is welcome to make offers on any of my photos it they want a print.
good to know.. !!!💖 You should let people know that.. 🌷
Your poem shows me the movement of the day as prayer and hope for an out of this world destination.
I love your photos, especially the last one.
Thanks, Imelda. If you can find a way to a mystical experience that is very exciting. The last photo was like a gift from Heaven.
Gorgeous sunflowers .. super post Tim!
Thanks, Julie.