A photography, another poem by April Higney and the music of Brahms

Hi,

After our first collaboration, the wonderful poet April Higney and me have decided to collaborate artistically again. This time, I propose to her an unpublished photography I have taken on August of this year inspired by my personal feelings of the moment.

If you want, I have put a music player below the April's poem. You are welcome to play the wonderful Johannes Brahms piece interpreted by the magnificent argentinean piano player Martha Argerich reading the poem. The title of this Brahms piece composed in 1880 is "Rhapsody in G Minor Op 79 No 2"

I hope you will enjoy this collaboration.

Have a nice day

Juan Carlos

FRAGRANCE OF THE HEART

I behold with these eyes

the softness of beauty

I yearn to touch

life

the fragrance

of the heart

which has been torn away

from me.

A ghost

reaching

with wonder

how you rest before me

torn away from your own earthen bed,

how long must it be before you wither and fade?

I behold with these eyes

the vibrancy that still catches with the light

beyond this shadow

I long to caress

with wonder

if only I could

plant you within this heart

to retain your precious life

and grant back to me

the gentle tones,

growing in strength

of substance

to my being.

April Higney, 2010

Passion Within : collaboration with the poet April Higney

Dear readers,

I'm very proud and happy to begin an artistic collaboration with the US poet April Higney (clicking on her name, you will acess to her wonderful website full of her sensitive writings).

I met her thanks to the social network Twitter.

One of my photographs yet published on the blog has inspired her these words for a poem called "Passion Within" you will find below the photograph.

This photograph is one of a very special woman for me and that's the last photo I took to her before ..

April wrote the poem without knowing nothing about the story of this photograph. I will not tell here the story but maybe you can imagine.

With a lot of emotion, I share with you again this photograph I called first "And It's Supposed To Be Love" when I published first in August 2010.

Peace

Juan Carlos Hernandez

PASSION WITHIN

You,

in the idea of love,

as contemplated of the mind.
You,

the one,

to which I placed the unknowing heart into,

brought me here, and left me behind.

This place,

an empty hall,

filled with rooms,

you have closed,

once shared.

This space,

shadowing the heart of me,

my face,

covering the tears,

once cared.

I,

in the idea of love,

have discovered of me,

more to the passion within,

this heart, still reflecting a light,

that pushes me forth,

and pulls me,

contemplated of the heart,

more directed,

even in blindness,

because it is through this heart,

I can truly see.

Passion,

fills this space,

that seemed otherwise empty,

now occupied by all that I am,

persecuted by a past,

yet preceding a future,

a place of meaningful expectations,

where this heart,

is destined,

in all of passions,

to where it is meant to be.

 - April Higney, October 2010 -