Loganberry

Loganberry

Every boy and every girl need to have a poet, who reminds them of the power of love. Something they absolutely must be certain of, something that hangs like a heavy, sweet fruit from the low branches that you are forced to reach, pick in your hands and sunk your teeth into it. Absorb the sweet aroma, let juices flow from your lips to your soul.

Let me be the poet, who will take you to the garden and show you the delicate foliage of the ancient orange shrubs and their sweet berries. The loganberries.  

A sweet logan berry

hangs from your lips

like a promise of heaven.

What is heaven, you ask?

Heaven is like a kiss,

silent yet powerful.

Heaven is red like

quivering lips of logan berry.

Heaven is when you are

becoming someone’s berry.

A red, live, pulsating Loganberry.

How would I know, how would I dare to foretell stories like that? Because I am a poet and if poets know anything – they do know love, her ways and her magic. Poets know long walks by the small banks of streams, where the berries are plentiful in late summer evenings, and they see there pairs of young lovers picking the berries and placing them in the mouth of their beloved ones. Poets, being poets, go home and write a poem about it. After all, that is all they know how to do. Hoping to explain the ways of love to some young boy or girl. They are like the loganberry – all they know is how to grow and become sweet and inviting, hoping that some girl or boy will pick them and taste them. The rest is mystery like the morning mist climbing the shores of small stream.

Fog in the Old City of the New World – Mgła w Starym Mieście Nowego Świata

Fog in the Old City of the New World – Mgła w Starym Mieście Nowego Świata

Continuation of my walks about with a camera in hand. Picture hunting, if you will. Of course, the term ‘Old City’ is heavy with irony, but the addition of ‘New World’ adds to it some justification. I do understand that in the Old World a hundred sixty odd years is an age of a baby, young teenager at best.

In New Westminster, December brings a lot with very foggy days and some time it combines the fog coming down from the slopes of mountains with the heavy fog flowing with the Fraser River from the valley.

An evening stroll through the main street , with the X-massy decorations combined with the New Year could be very charming. Romantic or magical. That’s how I was saying goodbye to the old year.

Powyżej zdjęcia z ostatniego w Starym Roku spaceru po starym mieście, otulonym opończą mgły i świątecznych neonów. Naturalnie, w Europie ta nazwa ‘stare miasto’ by była kompletnie niestosowna, LOL. Ale w Nowym Świecie sto sześćdziesiąt lat z okładem, to rawie antyk, LOL.

Poniżej zaś już przywitanie Nowego Roku w młodszym mieście – w Vancouverze.

The next day a stroll welcoming 2026 in younger city – Vancouver. And it does look splendidly at night time with all the lights and noise of modern metropolis.