"5x7"

Clayton  Turner
Author: Clayton Turner
Word Count: 178
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"5x7"

I guess that I have found the rhyming bug. I was thinking about my photography and this work seem to fit the whole idea of RedBubble, and please my alter artistic ego.

I sit and stare at pictures,
at these moments caught in time.
Have I framed reality?,
or has reality changed my mind?

Smiling faces, under glass
each known by a different name.
An image caught on paper,
but a smile just the same.

Not all the faces are still around,
but with those that are- I rejoice.
For some of these smiles were lost to fate,
and some have gone by choice.

Nonetheless, each face is a piece,
in a puzzle of unknown design.
The picture only comes clearer,
with the passage of captured time.

Although some are gone, and some have changed,
each face has imprinted within.
And I take each smile along with me,
to remind me of where I’ve been.

I learn a lot from these pictures.
Like who it is I was.
And that I smile can be a smile,
simply just because.

Every photo is a cherished memory,
and a smile with each face I find.
So when I missed the ones I’ve framed,
I just picture them in my mind.

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