Sunday, July 1, 2012

SW Wordle #63 Wedded Bliss?

Wedded Bliss?
Thin lips, taut skin
She stands, he sits
Next to each other
Barely touching
In a sepia snapshot
Poised in their gestures
As if this were utterly natural
This act, staged and set
The beginning of their lives...

To be sent to the framer
After being boxed -
For the next generation to ogle
The grand-daughter will choose
A point of honor for the grandparents
Behind protective glass
With their untold stories
Soon to be hanging
On a prominent wall


JP/davh
Process notes: If I knew how to add photos...it would help if I could find it. We did some renovations a while back and everything had to come off the walls. Safely packed away are several wedding photographs of grandparents, just waiting for another wall...
My Grandmother was his second wife, their third daughter was my mother.  A rough estimate on the photo is late 1800’s early 1900’s.

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20 comments:

  1. Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)July 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM

    Oooh Jules -we were very much on same wavelength - I truly feel you captured the feeling that coalesced from those words. Beautiful!

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  2. Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)July 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM

    Oooh Jules -we were very much on same wavelength - I truly feel you captured the feeling that coalesced from those words. Beautiful!

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  3. MarianneJuly 1, 2012 at 8:35 AM

    If pictures could only talk, what stories they could tell! Instead, we are left to invent the ending. Wonderful poem!

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  4. Magical Mystical TeacherJuly 1, 2012 at 8:51 AM

    "untold stories"

    Ah, so the photo doesn't tell everything, does it? Or, more to the point, perhaps it tells nothing at all.

    An Irish Whirl

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  5. DaydreamertooJuly 1, 2012 at 9:33 AM

    Was it wedded bliss, or not? Pictures only capture that moment in time but, they can tell a whole story in that moment too, can't they?
    Lovely use of the prompt Jules

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  6. MaryJuly 1, 2012 at 9:56 AM

    Ah yes, people in those old photos never look very natural, do they? I suppose this is because they had to stand in the same position for a long time to have the photo taken. Be sure to label your photos or the next generation will just wonder who they are.

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  7. annell4July 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM

    Well done wordle!

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  8. brenda wJuly 1, 2012 at 10:09 AM

    Untold stories leaves an opening for future storytellers to fill in with their imagination. ;) I can see the wedding picture, you describe it well. "staged and set..." that's quite an image to contrast beginnings. Well done, Jules.

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  9. ElizabethJuly 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM

    This reminded me of the only photo I have of my great grandparents on my mother's side. They stand next to one another, not touching, each looking away in a different direction. Untold stories, even more unanswered questions. I like how your poem found the connections of blood and feelings.

    Elizabeth

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  10. joanneJuly 1, 2012 at 11:42 AM

    You don't need a picture - you painted one with words so very well.....

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  11. Mr. WalkerJuly 1, 2012 at 12:21 PM

    I like the perspectives of this - the immediate one of the first stanza - the beginning - looking forward. And then the looking back on the past of the second - and what is untold. A delightful read.

    Richard

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  12. flaubertJuly 1, 2012 at 3:41 PM

    I agree with Joanne, Jules. Your words painted the picture vividly for me. Nice.

    Pamela

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  13. daphnepurpusJuly 1, 2012 at 4:21 PM

    You painted the scene so well! Nicely wordled!

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  14. De JacksonJuly 2, 2012 at 3:52 PM

    Loooooove "untold stories"...and your process notes. So great.

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  15. Sara McNultyJuly 2, 2012 at 4:36 PM

    Very well done, Jules. I have an old sepia of my mother's parents, which I keep wanting to take in and have refurbished and framed.

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  16. WillowJuly 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM

    Wonderful, that snapshot of innocence forever memorialized in a frame protected with glass.

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  17. rosemary mintJuly 2, 2012 at 5:06 PM

    This is so good. The ending is sad, though. So many stories going untold. I was thinking about this on Saturday while we visited grandparents.

    "With their untold stories
    Soon to be hanging
    On a prominent wall"

    You did such a great job telling this story, painting this picture. A tiny snapshot of the beginning.

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  18. vivinfranceJuly 3, 2012 at 1:31 AM

    Lovely story, effective wordling. Couldn't be better.

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  19. Laurie KolpJuly 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM

    Ahh... I can see the picture through your vivid words.

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  20. JazzbumpaJuly 6, 2012 at 8:56 PM

    Nicely done, and just a little bit enigmatic.

    Those photos from 100 years ago are typically so formal looking.

    Cheers!
    JzB

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