Photo Journal

Spirit Bird

Pelicans flying ghostly.jpg

Took this photo on April 30, 2018 at South Beach in Miami, Florida. The pelicans were flying toward me, then directly in front, then past and when I aimed directly in front - they passed before the sun and the picture was totally overexposed.  At first, I thought i'd get rid of the photo - but then I liked it.  It looks a little haunting.  And I found this poem:

Haunted Seas

By Cale Young Rice

 A gleaming glassy ocean
  Under a sky of grey; 
A tide that dreams of motion, 
  Or moves, as the dead may; 
A bird that dips and wavers
  Over lone waters round, 
Then with a cry that quavers
  Is gone—a spectral sound.

The brown sad sea-weed drifting
  Far from the land, and lost; 
The faint warm fog unlifting, 
  The derelict long tossed, 
But now at rest—though haunted
  By the death-scenting shark, 
Whose prey no more undaunted
  Slips from it, spent and stark.