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Haiku My Heart: Feelings and Consolation

 

FeelingsFeelings  © Andre du Plessis with kind permission

Offering of Love

In Quiet and Equal Gaze

ConsolationConsolation © Andre du Plessis with kind permission

Renders Constancy

~Noelle Renee

6.23.11

A Note from the Photographer:

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. All photographs are 'memento mori'. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
...Susan Sontag: American author, literary theorist, and political activist. 1933 – 2004
~I wish to dedicate this photograph of Lorraine Wildeman to Phyllis Clarke for her constant assistance, encouragement and vision. Thanks Phyllis.

Andre du Plessis

“You bring poetry to poverty and pain, and you bring us closer to South Africa through just a few people…” excerpt from a quoted response to these images by Phyllis Clarke on 1x.com.

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Andre du Plessis hails originally from South Africa and now resides in London where he practices as a physician when he is not capturing these phenomenal images.

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  1. UmaJune 23, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    Beautiful haiku Noelle, and the photographs speak a million words. Thanks for this!

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  2. ElizabethJune 23, 2011 at 11:26 PM

    amazing photos -- 

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  3. Fran PullaraJune 23, 2011 at 11:38 PM

    I always love the photos that you choose and the info about the photographer. Your haiku is lovely, too. As a dog person, any photo with a dog is special to me. 

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  4. rosieroweJune 24, 2011 at 12:17 AM

    Noelle, this is amazing. The photos touched me deeply and it's intriguing to read of their origins and the eye behind the camera. Thank you so much for sharing and for the beautiful accompanying words. =)

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  5. SpadomanJune 24, 2011 at 3:06 AM

    Very striking. Pulled me in. I stared at these photos for a long time. Then I went back and read the words a few times. Each time, more meaning than the next. Wonderful! Happy one year Haiku My Heart Anniversary to you, one of the family.

    Peace

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  6. Susan FoxJune 24, 2011 at 4:16 AM

    Dearest Noelle,

    These images are special.  They touch me so, my sister lived in SA for twenty years, I visited and became bound-up with the country, culture, music .  There is something about this kind of photography that fill a space in your heart like nothing else can, my own images are mostly landscape, have tried street shots but not personal ones like these, not brave enough!

    Lovely haiku too,

    Sue x

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  7. stephanieJune 24, 2011 at 6:44 AM

    gave me chills...the images, the word, the artists...

    thank you for an entire year of heartfelt haikus!

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  8. SnapJune 24, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    The photographs and the words ... heart stopping ... true .... LOVE. 

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  9. MeriJune 24, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    Love the Sontag quote -- "time's amazing melt."

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  10. leslieJune 24, 2011 at 11:12 AM

    ohhh, of course you must know how i love this photo, and your haiku captures the love between these two, so perfectly. 

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  11. Noelle ReneeJune 24, 2011 at 11:22 AM

    I was waiting for you to see it dear friend. I thought of you immediately
    :-)
    xoxo,
    Noelle

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  12. annieelfJune 24, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    I am left speechless, Noelle.

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  13. Noelle ReneeJune 24, 2011 at 9:22 PM

    You, Annie? Well, thank you! I will take that to mean that you love what you
    see. The photographer and I have become friends and I know that these
    comments will mean a great deal to him.
    xo,
    Noelle

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  14. annieelfJune 24, 2011 at 9:43 PM

    You got that entirely right, Noelle. The curve of her arm as she reached
    for the dog in the top picture was especially moving; it was so graceful.

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  15. MaritJune 24, 2011 at 11:55 PM

    Such a beautiful haiku and photo's, this post really touches me! 

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  16. Noelle ReneeJune 25, 2011 at 12:04 AM

    Thank you, Marit. I really appreciate that and so will Andre.
    xo,
    Noelle

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  17. Ramesh SoodJune 25, 2011 at 1:04 AM

    This is a beautiful photograph..and haiku is as ever very befitting.. Thanks Noelle for your generosity and the way you put your comments.. so emboldening.. Yes, one year is being celebrated.. with more Haikus.. indeed..

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  18. gemmaJune 25, 2011 at 9:47 AM

    Once again I am amazed by the photographs you find to share here....and always by your words. Your gift touches my heart.

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  19. GeekunorthodoxJune 26, 2011 at 2:16 PM

    Very touching, thanks for sharing.

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  20. Noelle ReneeJune 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM

    Thank you for commenting. I so appreciate your stopping by.
    Noelle

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  21. rebeccaDecember 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM

    you are a faithful sun always rising in the hearts of everyone! i am finally able to visit all the haiku offerings. how lovely that we have danced around the sun  to haiku through every season!

    thank you for your place in my heart.
    you have an extraordinary way of transporting me in the most meaningful of ways.

    i love you friend.

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