Photoluminescence

Guanica, Puerto Rico ©Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle

To photograph
Is to paint with light
An infinitesimal
Fraction of a moment.

Before the shutter closes
The earth has spun on.
Before a leaf moves
An image is the past.

To try to capture light
Is to try to capture life,
Each moment gone
Before a heart can beat.

An album of instants,
A library of seconds,
A lifetime of minutes,
The vanity of art.

Poets Unlimited

Six Years of poetry-only publishing, PoetsUnlimited was a diverse, engaging and authentic poetry magazine. For most of that time a daily publication, it was always diverse and original, and free-to-read by all.

Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle

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Author of Life In the Uncommonwealth and other titles on Amazon. Currently V.P. and editor of Urbane Traveler magazine www.urbane-traveler.com.

Poets Unlimited

Six Years of poetry-only publishing, PoetsUnlimited was a diverse, engaging and authentic poetry magazine. For most of that time a daily publication, it was always diverse and original, and free-to-read by all.

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