[Leica] CANADIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST POEM

[Steve Barbour]

She is really good

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> On May 8, 2016, at 6:15 PM, Susan Ryan <skalte at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> That is a beautiful poem and tribute. She nailed it. Good on her, and you for being the inspiration you are. 
> 
> Sue
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 4, 2016, at 5:17 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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