If you were to illustrate a favourite quote or poem, what would be your pick? Now you have the opportunity to do just that, and to use 1-4 pictures to make us ”feel” the poem or quote chosen. We will save lyrics for another challenge!
I have chosen some stanzas from the Indian Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, and his poem The Same Stream of Life.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
Thank you to Patti for last week’s Dramatic challenge! It brought us so many interesting posts and diverse ways to look upon drama. In fact many pictures I hadn’t thought of for the challenge, suddenly seemed very dramatic and fitting…
Now I hope you are going to have some fun with this challenge too. Pictures often speak for themselves, but this time your task is to let your images show/illustrate your chosen poetry or quote. Be sure to link to my original post and to use the Lens-Artists tag. We are looking forward to seeing your solutions!
And next week, Sofia will be our host – please visit her inspirational site for more!
Leya 
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Your poems and pictures are matched perfectly, Ann-Christine. This was a different kind of challenge and a lot of fun to do! Here is my post: https://mycolorfulexpressions.com/lens-artists-photo-challenge-283-illustrate-a-favorite-quote/
I am glad you liked it – and your entry is a varied and beautiful one. Thank you and wishing you a lovely Suinday!
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Coming in at the e last minute – here’s mine for this week
https://wordpress.com/post/norasphotos4u.wordpress.com/7430
And a lovely one, Nora! Sends the perfect feeling a child would feel.
Thanks!!
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Great capture of the dancing cranes, Ann-Christine. Such elegant creatures.
Thank you – indeed they are elegant. It is a feast watching them !
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Since I was away from my home library, and finding something that would work for me seemed impossible, I decided to present one of my own. Maybe not my favorite, though it was fun to really hone the poem down this week. https://lindylecoq.com/2024/01/26/lens-artists-photo-challenge-283-illustrate-a-favorite-quote-or-poem/
Oh, I’m delighted you chose one of your own, Lindy! I will go reading it now!
Such a different challenge this week, I wasn’t going to join in, but then I read this poem and loved it. Hope you do too.
I did, Jude – just came from your post. I loved it to the full. And your flower is something I have never seen before. A shining beauty. I will be looking for it…
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Beautiful quote and images Ann-Christine 🙂. It was definitely a challenge for me because the quotes I like and remember, didn’t fit to the pictures I had! So it took me really long this time, but I finally found a quote that mirrored my feelings and had pictures to match 🙂. So here it is:
Thank you, PR, happy you feel it was a challenge for you too!
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Thank you for the challenge. Tagore is one of my favorites as well I suspect you might like Mary Oliver as well
Carol Carlisle
Thank you, Carol! And yes, I loved your Mary Oliver – never heard the name before, but will search for more ♥
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Joining the challenge rather late …https://travtrails.com/2024/01/26/lens-artists-challenge-283-illustrate-a-favourite-quote-or-poem/
I am glad you do! Thank you!
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Hi Ann Christine! Mission Magic accomplished.😊
I just came from reading it – Magical Mission Mastered!
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I love the dancers! What a lovely collage of poetry and pictures. Stunning and inspiring! 🙂
Thank you, Marsha! So far there are many interesting and exciting posts to reed!
Yes, indeed. There always are. Terri Webster Schrandt and I talked about your post today. Did your ears burn?
A bit warm…yes – thank you for letting me know why!
hahaha!
Thanks for your images .
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That’s a beautiful illustration of your theme this week, and with photos from the places where you walk. Is that photo of the cranes also from Sweden?
I chose a less pastoral quote this week: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/burn-baby-burn/
Thank you, and yes, the cranes stop by at Hornborgasjön (a big lake in the middle of southern Sweden) on their way up north . Every year in March there is a grand gathering of cranes – and birders. That day of the photo, the count reached 19600 cranes. It was a fantastic experience.
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hello a. c.,
an interesting theme and wonderful pictures you have chosen for the challenge week i like them very much especially the 1st and 3rd.
here is my contribution to the weekly theme, https://wp.me/pfnz9O-5e.
many greetings robert
Thank you, Robert, so glad you liked the theme!
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Fantastic topic for this week!
Thank you, Sandy! ♥
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The enchanting stanzas and photos go so well with them. As I read the words and scrolled past the photos, my emotions ebbed and flowed and I smiled at the end as daisies are such happy flowers to me. Way to take us to another level of creativity by sharing our captured photo world with those who have described it eloquently with the words they’ve penned in their poems. 💖🥰
Thank you, Shelley! I found it fun to do it the other way around. Many of us use quotes in ur posts, but we use them to our own pictures. This time – we had to chose a poem or quote first. Glad you liked it!
You’re welcome. It was a clever way to use quotes indeed. I goofed up a bit on my take on the prompt, but it turned out nonetheless (I hope). If you get a chance, feel free to stop by and see how your prompt inspired me. https://www.quaintrevival.com/how-mrs-cardinal-gifted-us-doses-of-hope-this-week/
Thank you so much, Shelley!
You’re welcome!
Hi AC. I’ll join the others in saying what a great theme you’ve chosen for us this week. As always, I love your images, which are beautiful and perfectly match Tagore’s poem. I’ve chosen a few quotes, which ”spoke” to me. Have a great week and enjoy all the wonderful posts with lovely poems.
Hi Patti – thank you! I really did not know if other bloggers would like the theme, so many wrote that it would be difficult. But I am positively surprised at all the fantastic answers.
And – Dramatic was one of my absolute favourite themes. Gorgeous answers to that one, which also brought completely new thoughts of what is dramatic. Have a great week!
Wow, what a great idea for a challenge! It really got me thinking, as I have so many favourite poems – but not all of them so easy to illustrate with my photos! You’ve done such a good job with your own choices, I especially love the ICM daisies 😀 I thought about ‘nature’ poems at first but then remembered a recent conversation that had sparked memories of another favourite: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-king-of-kings/
Thank you, Sarah – and your post is grand and eternal. I have read it several times, pondering our fate, we humans.
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Beautifully put together
Thank you, Nora!
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What a great challenge! Thank you for this!
I am struggling with formatting my post. I really wanted to have the photos standing opposite the verse but I’m not too happy with the result. Maybe I will reformat later – but the poem and the photos will remain the same.
You’ve picked a wonderful poem and illustrated it with great photos – I particularly like the dancing cranes.
Thank you so much – I am so happy you embraced the challenge!
Completely my pleasure.
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A wonderful idea, Ann-Christine. Challenging, but wonderful.
Fortunately, I didn’t read your post before creating mine, it’d definitely have influenced my mind. After having read it, I got a few further ideas, but to be honest, they would all support your images and the quote.
I love especially your cranes. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to come also that close to them and see them in such a big number.
My post is online now for a few minutes. You can find it here: https://solaner.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/lens-artists-photo-challenge-283-illustrate-a-poem/
Thank you, Andre – and thank you for a beautiufl post! I am thinking of driving up to Hornborgasjön once more – seeing that many cranes, dancing too, and hearing them, was a treat of a lifetime.
Oh, yes. I can see them nearly every year migrating to the south and sometimes even coming back. They are only crossing our region. It’s somewhere in the middle of their flight. But, I visited their home region a few times. It’s amazing to see them 😁
It is!
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I hosted a song lyric challenge a while back with the same idea but never repeated it because of copyright infringement worries. But quotes and some poems are fair game. This is a great challenge and I love how you illustrated the poem with your beautiful images. I approached it differently. Here is mine this week, thanks for hosting: https://secondwindleisure.com/2024/01/21/sunday-stills-monthly-color-challenge-ethereal-aquamarine/
Thank you, Terri! And yes, there will be a song lyric challenge further on too.
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What an exciting and interesting challenge, Ann-Christine! ❤️ I love the poem that you chose and the accompanying photos, feels so delicate and graceful!
As of now I still have no idea what poem to pick (and what photos), but I’ll brainstorm for the next few days ahead ahahahah!
I am sure you will come up with something beautiful!
I can see this will be a more difficult challenge for me. You’ve done a beautiful job of illustrating the poem, Ann-Christine.
I am looking forward to yours, John!
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Beautiful images to go with the poem. Here is mine for this week. https://wanderingteresa.com/she-lost-herself-in-the-trees/
Thank you, Teresa!
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Your photos beautifully compliment the words you have chosen. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. This is so You 🙂
♥ Thank you for what I take as a recognition!
I think you’ve a nice pairing of words and images here.
They all match in an interesting way, and I think you’ve also left room to think, which also is nice.
Here’s mine for this one:
Thank you, SH – and room to think – that, is important!
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A challenge and a post to illustrate it that only you could come up with, Ann-Christine. The perfect to seat and think, I loved it.
The photos you’ve picked for your wonderful poem were made for it.
Here is mine:
Thank you so much, Sofia! I just came back from your post – and how I loved it. I want to know more!
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Ann=Christine, this post is inspirational and meaningful in both narrative and images. It is simply beautiful.
Thank you, Anne. Looking forward to seeing your contribution!
Just posted.
Great nature images and words.
My contribution is here https://deoculomeo.wordpress.com/2024/01/20/each-little-life/
Thank you, Marina – you made a wonderful post out of few words and one picture. So well done!
Thank you, Leya!
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You have proved that you are a born poetess. The images you have chosen beautifully blended with the poetry.
Good morning from India.
Philo
Thank you ever so much, Philo! ♥
You are welcome, AC.
Thank you for introducing this beautiful poem of Tagore’s. Beautiful photos to go with the poem. Love it!
Thank you, Amy – I had a good time posting it.
Great theme, great photos A-C. I love that stream of life photo especially. Mine: https://fairplay740.wordpress.com/2024/01/20/lens-artists-challenge-283-illustrate-a-favourite-quote-or-poem/
Thank you, John!
Ann-Christine, what a beautiful and touching poem you chose. The photos speak volumes about the poetry you share. Very poetic and captivating. For my response to this challenge, I used quote by US environmentalist John Muir. Here is my post:
https://egidio.photography/living-on-the-edge/
Thank you, Egidio! I know Muir and have used some quotes of his before.
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I absolutely loved the challenge, Ann-Christine. The quote from Tagore was perfect to flow through your photos. All very reflective of you. I am sure we will see some more reflective and creative posts as the week goes. And I bet there might even be a few who share their own poetry. Such a fresh look at how we can showcase our work.
I have just returned from your post, Donna – a wonderful outlook on life and the importance of being curious and open for new things. I too believe we will see some very creative posts – and how great if someone would share a poem of their own with pictures! I also hope there will be some really joyous and fun posts!
What a great topic for this week and wonderful images for the quote. Will try to join later on
Thank you, Teresa – looking forward to seeing your take on!
What a beautiful poem and perfect images to illustrate it. An excellent challenge.
Thank you, Karina! So happy you embraced the theme!
Wonderful challenge. Words and photos often spring from appreciating nature.
Thank you, and yes, they do.
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Excellently done Leya
Thank you so much, Sheree!
You’re very welcome Leya
Well Ann-Christine, I’m a fan of Tagore and have used his quotes often but this is a new one on me, which I love. You have illustrated it absolutely perfectly. Your images are marvelous and indicative of you connection with the beauty and peace of the nature that surrounds us. I love the challenge and very much look forward to seeing the responses this week.
Thank you, Tina! It seems many bloggers have embraced the theme – and you know from my comments how much I loved your beautiful entry!
Such a great challenge, and so well set off by you. I doubt if I shall be able to join in from Spain. To busy grandparenting. What a shame!
Oh, Margaret – surely grandparenttng is more important than blogging! I know!
Absolutely true!
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Inspirational post
Thank you! It was a fun theme I thought. Don’t know how many will emprace it though.
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Tired from a day’s walking after protracted illness. I’m happy just to spectate this time, Ann-Christine. Have a great week!
You too, Jo – hopefully recovering nicely soon!
It’s a beautiful sunny day and I’m feeling a lot better, thanks 🤗🩷
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I know Tagore but this poem is new and seeing the photos with those lines makes his words even more meaningful. Ann-Christine, this is my new favourite poem and this post, one of the best things I read today. Kudos! What a challenge!
I am so happy to see you embraced it! I hope you will join in this week too!
I’m working on it . Found some amazing quotes and then lost track of the goal- it is a photo challenge! 🤞
I’m looking forward to seeing your post!
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Definitely an interesting challenge!
Thank you, Chava – so glad you embrace it!
This is going to be a real challenge. Great theme and a wonderful post Ann Christine.
Thank you, Rupali! I hope you will join us this week!