Life Is Full of Sweet Spots

“Color!

What a deep

and mysterious language,

the language of dreams”

— Paul Gauguin

riot of color

red blue gold all competing

unspoken language

infusing tincture of joy

proclamation of delight

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Pulled in by color, breathtaking is an understatement • Photo by Jan Logozzo • “Captured” tanka* by Mary O’Connor

© 2025

* Tanka, often described as a short song, is a form of classical Japanese poetry with just five descriptive and reflective lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables