A Golden Leaf,
from life.
For someone to keep-
A golden life sans the strife.

©2010 akancha

“To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?”

-W. H. Auden, Epitaph For An Unknown Soldier

The photo is taken during my visit to The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial

“As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down, I became a visitor to hell.”

-Harry Parley, World War II veteran who fought in D-Day. At the age of 24, Private Parley carried a flamethrower in the first wave with the 116th Infantry Regiment.

The photo is taken during my visit to the D-Day Landing site of British troops- Gold beach or Arromanches-les-Bains in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Beach

A Family, a boundless field,
vast blue skies on shield.
Treasured relations,
cloistered feelings.

The photo is taken during my vacation at Normandy, France.

Standing alone,
thwarting gushing winds,
defying passing clouds.
A tale of a solitary crusade.

The photo is taken during my vacation at Normandy, France while on a moving car (approx 150- 180 kmph) using Canon PowerShot A720 IS, Exposure Time: 1/799 sec. Aperture Value: 4.00 EV (f/4.0) ISO Speed Rating: 80, Focal Length: 5.8 mm

A window to the world,
a passage to sentience,
obscured by ignorance.

Description: The photo is taken at the castle Altenburg in Bamberg, Germany. The Altenburg is located at the highest of Bamberg’s seven hills. Between 1251 and 1553 it was the residence of Bamberg’s bishops. German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann has also lived here for a short time.

Waves or a particles?
Light or a shadow
Life or death
Who knows, to square the life’s circle?

Description: The photo is of a reflection from the french window screen at my apartment.

An image, a shadow.
The light and the darkness.
Of totality and of nothingness.
A state of totality and the hollowness
What’s veridical and what’s unreal?
Who’s seeing who? Life’s still a shadowy existence.

Description: Photo taken along the sands at Cuxhaven (Elbe estuary), Germany.

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An endless shore of waves
of matter- mud or sand.
An eternal beckoning of loneliness,
for body and mind.

Description: Photo taken at the Mudflats, Cuxhaven (Elbe estuary), Germany. The mudflats are formed during the low tides and the neighboring island Neuwerk can be reached by mudflat hiking or by horse carriage.

Dry leaves, empty feelings.
Leaves fall, feelings change.
So do the seasons
and our reasons, to feel.

Description: The photo was taken at Eisendorf Wald (Forest) near my university at Harburg-Hamburg