Tag Archives: tree

Love and Death

Posted on February 8, 2024 by John Biscello

The branch of the tree reaching down. It reaches down to graze the time-scarred headstone, to caress it. Could this be … a secret love story, a love story with no history, or with a cortege of history, spanning many … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged cemetery, death, eternal, headstone, love, love story, poem, Poetry, Prose, sketch, stone, tree | Leave a comment

Nuptials

Posted on September 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Here, a plot of overgrown grass and conjugal motives– A desirously bowing limb decked out in pink and green, caressing the time-darkened stone of one who has passed from now to now-again… The enduring portrait … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged cemetery, grave, japan, love story, nature, niigata, Poetry, tree | Leave a comment

Elegy for the Living

Posted on September 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Out of the world’s slow unseen turning, a darkly candid limb photobombs the dead, en route to heaven’s extended mouth of silence– The living, below, crossing gravely their own secret vigils, never witness the lancing … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged cemetery, elegy for the living, graves, growth, japan, niigata, poem, Poetry, tree | 1 Comment

Wonder

Posted on March 25, 2018 by John Biscello

Each spring they return, bound to renew small wonders– Innocent by turns. (Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, children, fable, forest, ghosts, haiku, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, jump rope, play, poem, spring, tree | 1 Comment

Night Moves

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Tree’s night-perm like fog, stars pining to get lost there– Long distance courtship. (Artwork by Georgia O’ Keefe)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged courtship, D.H. Lawrence ranch, Georgia O' Keefe, haiku, John Biscello, love, nature, New Mexico, night sky, painting, poem, Stars, tree | Leave a comment

Scale

Posted on March 18, 2018 by John Biscello

Mountain, tree, small boy, scaling serene loneliness to a still center. (Artwork by Hiroshige)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, haiku, hiroshige, japan, japanese, John Biscello, mount fuji, mountain, nature, painting, poem, tree | Leave a comment

Candles

Posted on March 16, 2018 by John Biscello

One for each of us, happy born-day, dear sister– Beyond human reach. (Artwork by Dorothea Tanning)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, birthday, candles, dorothea tanning, haiku, home, John Biscello, Light, poem, sisters, surreal, tree | Leave a comment

Roots

Posted on March 8, 2018 by John Biscello

Some launches do not require propulsion but rather firm solid rootedness to this floating world. (Photo by Anne Brigman)

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged anne brigman, floating, John Biscello, launch, myth, nature, photo, poem, roots, sky, tree, woman | Leave a comment

Bough

Posted on February 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Thick blossoms of snow caking the comb-teeth of pines– To rivet, chastely, sublime.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged chaste, John Biscello, nature, pines, poem, Poetry, snow, sublime, tree, Winter | Leave a comment

Musing

Posted on November 9, 2017 by John Biscello

Birdless solitude, Winter’s song, slow, deep, solemn– Musing upon spring.

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Artwork, birds, bones, cold, haiku, John Biscello, landscape, Muse, nature, poem, Poetry, pond, snow, solitude, tree, Winter, winter scene | Leave a comment