The Singular Embrace

The Singular Embrace

Featured Art 23 September 2009
Islands of the World

Featured Art 14 September 2009
All Water in Motion

Pa’ako Beach
Makena Maui Hawai’i

Fine Art Photography
Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009
All Rights Reserved

Natural light and sensational colours, the sunset on this evening was dazzling. I love the lavender light. This is a composite of three images all taken on Pa’ako Beach at sunset on the same evening, stitched with Curves WB adjustments.

The Deeper Meaning of Aloha

“The lover lowers her gaze and the Beloved
raises it

until lover is engulfed in oceans too vast to
circumscribe

and around their margins fly continuous bands of
singing birds

The lover closes her lips around silence the way
light enters a room and obliterates darkness

and the Beloved suddenly starts singing inside the
lover’s mouth until even the stars like wandering animals
in their constellational shifts bleat and bay across
vast astronomical distances making them as small

as the moisture bead on the lover’s lip and the
Beloved’s eye-gleam from as far away as
deep undersea

The lover stands to embrace the Beloved
and the Beloved stands to embrace the lover

And the lover stands to embrace the Beloved
and the Beloved stands to embrace the lover

and the echoes from their movements blow rainbow
lights stuttering against earth’s canyon walls and icebergs
break off and slide into black waters

And the Beloved stands and the lover
shrinks within the microscopic compass of all her
insignificant acts until each breath
obliterates her
and the Beloved stands to embrace the lover
until the whole world rises to a standing position within that embrace

An Ant gnaws at a redwood tree and it
falls in a straw across a single heartbeat

We’ve never left God’s glorious dimension and need only look

not within us nor around us
but through the sphere of that Glance the Beloved takes and
blows into a ball of sky and crashing waves

which is all the lover offers through the paucity of
her multifaceted “I”

The singular embrace“
from: The Ecstatic Exchange
poetry of Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore
Ramadan

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Shooting Date Saturday 09 May 2009 18:08:59
WhitePoint 0.31 0.33
Aperture Priority
ISO 100 Centre Weighted Metering
Lens Aperture F/7.1 (5.66)

Pa’ako Beach
Makena Maui Hawai’i

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