[Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Well, that's a wonderful poem, Uncle Ted, so gentle and loving ... A great, 
well-deserved gift.  Belle journ?e!
Jean-Michel


Jean-Michel Mertz
68750 - Bergheim

 
> From: tedgrant at shaw.ca
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:51:30 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM
> 
> Thank you Lluis very much. 
> An old saying from my Father & Mother:      "You get what you give!" 
> That doesn't mean if you do something for another you expect to receive a 
> "gift? Favour, whatever in return?
> It's how you respect others, what you may do no more than "Hold a door 
> open for a lady, an elder, anyone. A moment of politeness!" It is all so 
> easy to do. 
> And if the people of the world acted and thought more along these lines 
> maybe the world would be a far better place.
> Cheers my friend,
> 
> Dr. Ted Grant CM
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of lluisripollphotography
> Sent: May-04-16 5:38 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM
> 
> Hi Ted, mon ami
> 
> What a inner happiness receive such gift!!! This is again a big prove 
> about how all the persons who know you, love you, this is the best thing 
> we can have in the life, what you get!
> 
> Cheers!
> Lluis
> 
> PS .- I?ll forward this to our common friend Guillermo
> 
> 
> > El 5 maig 2016, a les 1:17, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> va escriure:
> > 
> > Hi Crew, 
> > My niece in the UK is a very fine author/poet in early years and wrote 
> > this
> > poem about her Uncle Ted as a photojournalist.
> > Not bad for a young lady 16 yrs. I'd say.
> > cheers,
> > Ted Grant. CM
> > Dedicated to Canadian photojournalist, Uncle Ted Grant
> > <http://tedgrantphoto.com/> 
> > "Jesus Christ!
> > Would you look at that"
> > - then click!
> > His voice smoky
> > as the wind.
> > When he speaks
> > he looks to the distance,
> > ruddy horizons,
> > - blind in one eye
> > but the sight sharper.
> > At 83,
> > he still holds his camera
> > gently, but poised
> > - ready to pounce,
> > a hunter, a gatherer,
> > horse at the ready,
> > tracking life in its rawest
> > - moments unnoticed,
> > a flick of the spur!
> > An eye into focus.
> > Human nature bared,
> > unfiltered
> > - like a shot of whiskey,
> > smooth and rough,
> > "Don't think just click!"
> > His hands a little shaky now,
> > he flicks through his book; his work
> > - life mapped out
> > trodden tracks,
> > sudden sun on worn out paths.
> > His eyes
> > cool, calm, cantering quick,
> > though now, sometimes,
> > they well right up,
> > memories stirred like desert dust.
> > "Don't think too much"
> > he'd say, shaking his head,
> > "It's just life"
> > - a thousand lives
> > along the wrinkles of his cheeks.
> > and grabbing his stetson
> > swinging a camera round his chest,
> > he'd ride away into the sun
> > like there's nothing to it.
> > a silhouette.
> > against the horizon of life
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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