Damian: posts feature the pen and the pixel

Visible, invisible, A fluctuating charm, An amber-coloured amethyst Inhabits it; your arm Approaches, and It opens and It closes; You have meant To catch it, And it shrivels; You abandon Your intent— It opens, and it Closes and you Reach for it— The blue Surrounding it Grows cloudy, and It floats away From you.

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: a jellyfish in the aquarium in Genoa.

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits - the coast at Anamur.

Is a Cemal Süreya poem

I watch you swim far out from my deckchair, a black dot amid white glitter. Later, you insist I reverse down the ladder slowly – where you leapt in. But the odour, the giant freeze of the sea and its gross judder– which I describe, but could never prepare for, once you’ve climbed out, you don’t remember kept me paddling tamely by the shore grasping the rungs of my own ribs. In Sri Lanka, the tide licked icily up and over my bitten legs in the sun-smitten sand – my mother, hating it, snatched me away before I was pulled in and under and lost forever. Yours, when she swam out to sea, took you with her.

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Dubrovnik Old Town, Gundulic Square.

Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits; the Avar gold horde, in the Hungarian National Museum.

His back is black, his stomach white, He has a very dangerous bite.

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: a leopard shark at the Shedd Aquarium, Chicago.

No poem today, instead this joyous piece of plena by Plena Libre - a proper taste of living life as you choose to, in Puerto Rico.

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A Route of Evanescence, With a revolving Wheel – A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal – And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts its tumbled Head – The Mail from Tunis – probably, An easy Morning’s Ride –

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: The Bab el Bahr, gateway to the medina, Tunis.

They were carried to the ocean; borne on currents uncontrollable, unleashable - to a land distant and free to my lost love, who lived there without me.

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits was taken on Inis Mor, Isles of Aran; two swans swim in the back bay, adjacent to the seal colony.