[Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM

[Robert Adler]

What a WONDERFULLY talented young lady!
You have a rich life, my friend. Cheers to you!

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

>
> > 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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> Tina Manley
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