Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
The gray marble
Supports
With leisured rich
Array
The carved squares
And the luxuriating
Pebbled
Head in
Golden display.
Note: The photo was taken at Wat Pho, The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, in Bangkok, Thailand. The pebbled bits represent a small part of the ‘hair’ of the massive Buddha statue. The textures and contrasts of the surfaces were what caught my eye and so the angle of the photo is deliberately ambiguous.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Ancient stone
Not disowned
By old time’s
Marching on.
Newer walls
Chaperone
To contain
Buddha’s throne,
And only the peak’s
Crumbling bones
Tell of years
Now long
Gone.
For the Wits-End Weekly Photo Challenge: Decay
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Going up?
Sliding down?
Where is north?
Where’s the sun?
In perspective
And life
Every day
Every time,
Slant will shape
The view
You’ll find.
For Kammie’s Oddball Challenge
Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
In temples
Festooned
Not for one day
But all,
Glory shines
Festive gold
For good luck
To prolong.
For Photo for the Week Challenge: Festive
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
In the contest for
Bling,
He will certainly
Win.
In the roll call for
Glamour,
He will rise above
Clamor.
In the race for the
Best
He’s the most smartly
Dressed.
As cool temple guards
Go
He’s the top of the
Show.
For the Photo A Week Challenge: Things with wings
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Sentinels
Set in stone
Guard gates of
This temple zone.
Come to leave
You must pass
By these guards
From the past,
Who protect it
Perhaps
From time’s
Inevitable collapse.
For the Lens-Artists Challenge: Doors and doorways
Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
All that shines
In the glitter
Of candles lit,
Stories told,
Holds the breath
Spent in prayer
O’er Gods
Dressed in gold.
For the Photo a Week Challenge: Gilded
Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
Where gold leaf
Lends good fortune
And the crowds
Come to pray,
Shines the hum
Of the many
Wishing for plenty
Today.
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