Inside and Outside - Some Poems and Images by Gudrun Dreher

Here in This Blue Light


The light here is so blue – 
and bluer than ever before – 
perhaps because
its absence can also be felt.

And right inside this
blueness, this
absence, 
two white swans.

Listen – 
there is some music too – 
lingering in the air – 
adding a touch
of magic.







The Rock

Under the water
the green rock is slowly
emerging:
eyes looking
inside, ears listening
downward. There
wet and slow
the darkness
is singing.







This Morning’s Light 


This morning's ligth

bright and almost
horizontal –  

breathing silver
over the sleeping leaves.


Caught in the silver web
of the sea’s sur-
face the sun’s face – 
reflecting 
your smile.








 

Like Birds

 

There was some chirping

behind her. Birds,
she thought and turned
round.

But all she could see was her lost
dreams, ­ side by side, ­ the color
of autumn leaves ­
in a tree - fluttering,
almost imperceptibly,
in the dusk.









© Gudrun Dreher, May 2024

All the images above are based on my photos 
modified with tools from Be Funky (https://www.befunky.com/dashboard/). 

 

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