May Week 2 – We Have a Beautiful Mother

Orche Star Eats Clam

I am posting these images on “Mothers Day.”  This day’s origin began in 1870 with Julia Ward Howe’s call to women globally to unite and declare a day for protesting war and seeking ways of peace.  12 years after she wrote the lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, not a “feminist theme song,” she was tired of war and killing and declared “From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own, it says Disarm! Disarm!”

I offer you two images (photographed in the second week of May) from the body of mother earth: “Tears on an Iris” and “Star Eats Crab.” On this Mothers Day we each remember our mother and all mothers we know, Mother Earth and the Eternal God/dess Mother.  The words of Alice Walker enable us to do just that in her poem “We Have A Beautiful Mother.”

• We have a beautiful
  mother
  Her Hills

  

  are buffaloes
  Her buffaloes
  hills.
  We have a beautiful
  mother
  Her oceans
  are wombs
  Her wombs
  oceans.
  We have a beautiful
  mother
  Her teeth
  the white stones at the edge
  of the water
  the summer grasses
  her plentiful
  hair.
  We have a beautiful
  mother
  Her green lap
  immense
  Her brown embrace
  eternal
  Her blue body
  everything
  we know.

  Shallow depth-of-filed used to select focus on water (f/2.8  – 100mm  macro lens, diffused light, reflector)