New Beginnings
by Gertrude B. McClain

It's only the beginning now
...a pathway yet unknown
At times the sound of other steps
...sometimes we walk alone

The best beginnings of our lives
May sometimes end in sorrow
But even on our darkest days
The sun will shine tomorrow.

So we must do our very best
Whatever life may bring
And look beyond the winter chill
To smell the breath of spring.

Into each life will always come
A time to start anew
A new beginning for each heart
As fresh as morning dew.

Although the cares of life are great
And hands are bowed so low
The storms of life will leave behind
The wonder of a rainbow.

The years will never take away
Our chance to start anew
It's only the beginning now
So dreams can still come true.

Pictures by SPERA GERARDO - POMARICO (ITALY)

Sunset Poem

Pablo Neruda – If you forget me
____________________________________________

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
_____________________________________________

Pablo Neruda

Pictures taken by SPERA GERARDO at POMARICO (ITALY).

" The Weary One ... Pablo Neruda "
The weary one, orphan
of the masses, the self,
the crushed one, the one made of concrete,
the one without a country in crowded restaurants,
he who wanted to go far away, always farther away,
didn't know what to do there, whether he wanted
or didn't want to leave or remain on the island,
the hesitant one, the hybrid, entangled in himself,
had no place here: the straight-angled stone,
the infinite look of the granite prism,
the circular solitude all banished him:
he went somewhere else with his sorrows,
he returned to the agony of his native land,
to his indecisions, of winter and summer.

Pictures taken by SPERA GERARDO at POMARICO (ITALY).

Dam of St. Julian in August 2010

Da AUGUST 2010 .........

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
...That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

SUNSET POMARICO

Da TRAMONTI POMARICO ( ITALY ) VII 2008 ( SUNSET )

Dreams

I dream of your touch while you are away, I dream of your smile all through the day, I remember the day,You came into my life, I dream of the day I will be your wife. I dream of the day I can fall asleep next to you, I dream of the day I can say I do. To be your wife, To be together for life, Is a dream I have, Every night.

- Jessica Ann Trimble -

Da TRAMONTI POMARICO ( ITALY ) VII 2008 ( SUNSET )

I Will Love You Forever

I love you so deeply,I love you so much, I love the sound of your voice And the way that we touch. I love your warm smile And your kind, thoughtful way, The joy that you bring To my life every day. I love you today As I have from the start, And I'll love you forever With all of my heart.

- Amanda Nicole Martinez

Da TRAMONTI POMARICO (ITALY) III

Cat's Dream

How neatly a cat sleeps,sleeps with its paws and its posture,sleeps with its wicked claws,and with its unfeeling blood,sleeps with all the rings--a series of burnt circles--which have formed the odd geologyof its sand-colored tail.

I should like to sleep like a cat,with all the fur of time,with a tongue rough as flint,with the dry sex of fire;and after speaking to no one,stretch myself over the world,over roofs and landscapes,with a passionate desireto hunt the rats in my dreams.

I have seen how the cat asleepwould undulate, how the nightflowed through it like dark water;and at times, it was going to fallor possibly plunge into the bare deserted snowdrifts.Sometimes it grew so much in sleeplike a tiger's great-grandfather,and would leap in the darkness overrooftops, clouds and volcanoes.

Sleep, sleep cat of the night,with episcopal ceremonyand your stone-carved moustache.Take care of all our dreams;control the obscurityof our slumbering prowesswith your relentless heartand the great ruff of your tail.

Pablo Neruda

Da TRAMONTI POMARICO (ITALY) V

In My Sky At Twilight

In my sky at twilight you are like a cloudand your form and colour are the way I love them.You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lipsand in your life my infinite dreams live.

The lamp of my soul dyes your feet,the sour wine is sweeter on your lips,oh reaper of my evening song,how solitary dreams believe you to be mine!

You are mine, mine, I go shouting it to the afternoon'swind, and the wind hauls on my widowed voice.Huntress of the depth of my eyes, your plunderstills your nocturnal regard as though it were water.

You are taken in the net of my music, my love,and my nets of music are wide as the sky.My soul is born on the shore of your eyes of mourning.In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begin.

Pablo Neruda

Da TRAMONTI POMARICO (ITALY) VI 2008

Love

What's wrong with you, with us, what's happening to us? Ah our love is a harsh cord that binds us wounding us and if we want to leave our wound, to separate, it makes a new knot for us and condemns us to drain our blood and burn together.

What's wrong with you? I look at you and I find nothing in you but two eyes like all eyes, a mouth lost among a thousand mouths that I have kissed, more beautiful, a body just like those that have slipped beneath my body without leaving any memory.

And how empty you went through the world like a wheat-colored jar without air, without sound, without substance! I vainly sought in you depth for my arms that dig, without cease, beneath the earth: beneath your skin, beneath your eyes, nothing, beneath your double breast scarcely raised a current of crystalline order that does not know why it flows singing. Why, why, why, my love, why?

Pablo Neruda

SUNSET POMARICO (ITALY) II

SUNSET

It is so peaceful at sunset, They show all dreams to be met In it, memories are also held There in your heart, your fears are quelled
As the sun dips low in the sky It reminds you of all those times you flew high And with those memories of soaring above, You have the hope and strength to find new love
Because at that sunset you find peace There, is where your fears all cease For dreams you find your strength to fly There, in that sunset sky.

SUNSET AND YOU
Sunsets are not a rare commodity they come and go every night so i compare you not to a sunset for you come once in a life your beauty surpases the colors of the sky painted anew each night by angels on high for god himself has sculpted you he made it so your only seen by few and you do not hide from the moon as all the sunsets do rather you shine bright under its silver light and you dance all night you do far more than any sunset would more breathtaking than any sunset could sunsets have moved and inspired all man kind since forever but you move me each moment, to a love that sunsets could never

Daniel Cook

A SUNSET
my eyes burn more than a rising sunset provoking the horizon to dare and arise to the challenge every time i look at you the sunset is so daring eyes so daring my mind cringing from memories drawing inside as timidly dead as the sunsets colors are bold killing the every last hated emotion its only passion its only a sunset thats captivated my very being
Kathryn Garner

Pictures taken By Spera Gerardo at Pomarico (Italy).

Monday, September 15, 2008

SUNSET POMARICO (ITALY)

Sunset, also called sundown in some American English dialects, is the instant when the trailing edge of the sun's disk disappears below the horizon in the west. It should not be confused with dusk, which is the point at which darkness falls, some time after the beginning of twilight when the sun itself sets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset

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The sunset is often more brightly colored than the sunrise,[citation needed] with the shades of red and orange being more vibrant. The atmosphere responds in a number of ways to exposure to the sun during daylight hours. In particular, there tends to be more dust in the lower atmosphere at the end of the day than at the beginning. During the day, the sun heats the surface of the Earth, lowering the relative humidity and increasing wind speed and turbulence, which serves to lift dust into the air. However, differences between sunrise and sunset may in some cases depend more on the particular geographical features of the location from which they are viewed. For example, on a west-facing coastline, sunset occurs over water while sunrise occurs over land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset

The timing of sunset varies with the time of year and the latitude of the location from which it is viewed. The timing also varies in local time within a given time zone, determined by each location's precise longitude. Changes in timing of sunset are driven by the axial tilt of Earth, the spherical shape of the Earth, and the planet's movement in its annual orbit around the sun. Some apparent anomalies exist however, the main one caused by the Earth's axial tilt and the Earth's elliptical orbit. In the Northern Hemisphere, the earliest sunset does not fall on the winter solstice around December 21, but instead it occurs earlier in December. Likewise, the latest sunset does not fall on the summer solstice around June 21, but instead it happens later in June or in early July, depending on your latitude. The same phenomenon exists in the Souther Hemisphere except with the respective dates being some time before June 21 in winter and some time after December 21 in summer, possibly in January of the following year. For one or two weeks surrounding both solstices, both sunrise and sunset get slightly later or earlier each day. Even on the equator, sunrise and sunset shift several minutes back and forth through the year, along with solar noon. This effect is plotted by an analemma.
Due to Earth's axial tilt, the direction of sunset in the northern hemisphere is always to the northwest from the March equinox to the September equinox, and to the southwest from the September equinox to the March equinox. Sunsets occur precisely due west on the March and September equinoxes, and the duration of day and night are approximately 12 hours on the equinoxes for all viewers on Earth (precisely 12 hours if measured from the centre of the sun).
As sunrise and sunset are calculated from the leading and trailing edges of the sun, and not the centre, this slightly increases the duration of "day" relative to "night". Further, because the light from the sun is bent by the atmospheric refraction, the sun is still seen after it is below the horizon. This effect is a daily illusion along with sunrise. The sun also appears larger on the horizon, which is another optical illusion, similar to the moon illusion.

The intense red and orange hues of the sky at sunset and sunrise are mainly caused by scattering of sunlight off dust particles, soot particles, other solid aerosols, and liquid aerosols floating in the earth's atmosphere. These enhanced red and orange colors at sunset and sunrise are mathematically explained by Mie theory or the discrete dipole approximation. When there are no particulates in the troposphere, such as after a big rain storm, then the remaining less intense reds are explained by Rayleigh Scattering of sunlight off of air molecules. The brilliance and intensity of the colors of sunsets are typically greater than sunrises, since there are generally more particles in the evening air than in the morning air. Nighttime air is usually cooler and less windy which allows the dust and soot particles to settle out of the atmosphere, reducing the amount of Mie Scattering and the amount of red and orange scattered light at sunrise. Sunrise color intensities can however exceed sunset's intensities when there are nighttime fires, volcanic eruptions or emissions, or dust storms to the east of the viewer. A number of eruptions in recent times, such as those of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and Krakatoa in 1883, have been sufficiently large to produce remarkable sunsets and sunrises all over the world.
Sometimes just before sunrise or after sunset a green flash can be seen.

Sunsets on other planets appear different because of the differences in the distance from the planet to the sun and in different atmospheric compositions.
Because Mars is farther from the Sun than the Earth is, the Sun appears only about two-thirds the size that it appears in a sunset seen from the Earth. Although Mars lacks oxygen and nitrogen, it is covered in red dust frequently hoisted into the atmosphere by fast but thin winds. At least some Martian days are capped by a sunset significantly longer and redder than typical on Earth. One study found that for up to two hours after twilight, sunlight continued to reflect off Martian dust high in the atmosphere, casting a diffuse glow.

Pictures taken By Spera Gerardo at Pomarico (Italy)

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