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August 31, 2009 | 14 Comments
Newly-harvested Spanish Onion on my car’s windshield sun shade.
CLICK: Allium
Event Details HERE
Photographer: Bee
Camera: Canon 300D
Lens: 70-200 mm
Shutter speed: 1/125 sec
ISO Speed: 100
F-stop: f/4
ODE TO THE ONION
Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew.
Under the earth
the miracle
happened
and when your clumsy
green stem appeared,
and your leaves were born
like swords
in the garden,
the earth heaped up her power
showing your naked transparency,
and as the remote sea
in lifting the breasts of Aphrodite
duplicating the magnolia,
so did the earth
make you,
onion
clear as a planet
and destined
to shine,
constant constellation,
round rose of water,
upon
the table
of the poor.
You make us cry without hurting us.
I have praised everything that exists,
but to me, onion, you are
more beautiful than a bird
of dazzling feathers,
heavenly globe, platinum goblet,
unmoving dance
of the snowy anemone
and the fragrance of the earth lives
in your crystalline nature.
~ Pablo Neruda
And a couple of entries for Flower Fest: Purplicious.
Purple Salvia
Potato Flower
flowers, GARDENING, Onion/Shallot, Photo Essays, PHOTOGRAPHY, potato flower, salvia
Oh Bee . I was assuming the last date to be today and was working on the picture since morning.. just came to link it back to the original post … and saw that i’m past the deadline
Beautiful, beautiful pic this Bee. I would love to know more about the Devil Dash – how it felt physically and what gear, food, etc. you packed. Congratulations to you and your group for undertaking the challenging hike.
I’d like to read about the Dash too…
Lookit all that gorgeous bokeh!
beautiful! Hope you win!
You grew them? Beautiful.
shoot! i missed the deadline on this – i did click on the weekend though. it’s my fault as i’ve misplaced my brain some place – if only i could remember where. as for this shot – that bokeh looks awesome
Bee thats a serene click! Lovely!
Absolutely luminous pictures of Allium cepa
Voted!
Purplicious entry is very nice.
Loved the pic of spanish onion.
That’s lovely, Bee! Even though I haven’t read the poem before, I guess it was Neruda’s when I read the first couple of lines.
Neruuuuuuuuuda! OMG, its been ages since I read him
Lovely click too! How was the ‘dash’? Can we expect a post on that?
Such a beautiful post. Thanks, Bee!
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