Photo and poem slam

[lesged]

This is a second generation of a thread that encourages members to create a greeting card that combines one of their photos with a poem either written by themselves or anyone elses' poem that complements the image. (with attribution for published poems, svp)

Here is a recent one I made for our elder son, Marc, who turned 59 on January 6th, the Day of Epiphany.




    59th Birthday Card                                                                                      Lester Gediman, Jan 6, 2012
                        
                                Birthdays can make the
                                             sun burn through fog and create
                                                                                      a glorious day



 
Note: I used a haiku format: 3 lines with syllable count of 5, 7 and 5  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

[NancyB]

 Bright yellow wellies for someone aged four
 Jumping in puddles for fun
 Splashing aways, a great game to play
 And something that has to be done.
 
"Yellow Wellies" David Axton

[Olypen]

For my brother on his 80th Birthday

that clump of popple

by the old road

looked especially fine this year.

the big and little trees

raised there by the sun

seemed to make up a single thing.

the years of our lives, too,

cluster like the trees,

big and little things remembered into one.