Author Archives: mickyates

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Communication

By mickyates | Published March 18, 2013

Communication talking without words an instant impression of time the constant value revealing itself in the depths of our hearts Written 1969 It was a week of variety. There was a collection of toilet pods, pink for ladies, blue for men. Fun and funky, and who would have thought that images of toilets could ever [...]

Posted in Art, iPhoneography, London, Photography, Poetry, United Kingdom, Writing | Tagged communication, images, iPhone, iPhoneography, promises, words | Leave a comment

Clouds

By mickyates | Published February 6, 2013

Clouds Clouds like nymphs fleeting heavenward. High above in childish fantasy, Pictures melting, fast deserting Loosing glory, gaining solitude. Bursting forth as living water. Sometimes grey, looming ominous. Coloured scarlet by dying embers. Broken by light, blue beyond. Where are they going, or coming from? Written Summer 1967 Last weekend I was at the ICEHOTEL, [...]

Posted in iPhoneography, Photography, Prose, Sweden, Writing | Tagged Billy Joel, clouds, ice, ICEHOTEL, instagram, iPhone, iPhoneography, Kiruna, snow | Leave a comment

Rose

By mickyates | Published January 20, 2013

Rose Tall and straight with vestal eye. Sunset embodied in life eternal, Golden charm of folded petal. Coloured scarlet with flaming torch. Virgin purity of snowy white, Or rainbow hues of any in nature. Short and bushy in green confusion. Often chosen with ecstatic movement, Showing love, cherished enchantment, But creature of death to people [...]

Posted in Bath, iPhoneography, Painterly, Photography, Poetry, Prose, Russia, United Kingdom, Writing | Tagged Alone, Beatles, frost, Hemingway, High Performance Team, Rose, snow, Together | Leave a comment

On The Pond’s Edge

By mickyates | Published January 2, 2013

On The Edge Part 1 Listen to the speed with which things stay the same, listen to the silence. Share the edge Share the win Share the loss There is a shine to the depth which can reveal its limits whilst refusing to notice its blackness. There is a word to be said which lightens the [...]

Posted in Bath, iPhoneography, Photography, Prose, United Kingdom, Writing | Tagged iPhone, iPhoneography, New Year, rain, sun | Leave a comment

A Flood Of Memories

By mickyates | Published December 31, 2012

A Burtonian Poem a mist descending rolling with tidal motion over the blackened parapet of the Trent Bridge. in Hartshorne a farmer wakes early to milk his cows, for him every day is the same. children making early morning tea for their parents. the walls of a bed sit explode in the agony [...]

Posted in Burton on Trent, Family, HDR, iPhoneography, Photography, Prose, Travel, Tutbury, United Kingdom, Writing | Tagged Burton, change, Dove, Family, floods, iPhone, iPhoneography, memories, Trent | Leave a comment

Jump .. Home

By mickyates | Published November 26, 2012

Jump .. Home Jump once Jump twice Jump thrice And we feel the life that there is around us within us beside us and beyond us. Jump once And there is another jump with another beyond that. Jump twice and there is no jump Just a distant measure of success Jump thrice and the smile [...]

Posted in Art, Australia, HDR, Hong Kong, iPhoneography, Japan, Painterly, Photography, Travel, United Kingdom, USA, Writing | Tagged Australia, CEO, expat, HDR, home, Hong Kong, ideas, iPhone, Japan, Jump, Painterly, Photography, poem, pool, prose, UK, USA | Leave a comment

Escape to the future, Escape to the past

By mickyates | Published October 30, 2012

Escape There is a moment of sheer horror when truth is open for all to see. When eyes that are closed are scared of the night time, and strangers that smile become the immortal. If it t’were done, said the man, then get the f*** on with it. Success is a virtue for those that [...]

Posted in Art, France, HDR, iPhoneography, Painterly, Photography, Prose, Writing | Tagged dagger, deal, DeLorean, escape, HDR, iPhone, iPhoneography, Macbeth, negotiation, Paris | Leave a comment

Coffee, whisky and reflecting icons

By mickyates | Published October 26, 2012

Way to go, way to go, isn’t it? What happens to the pond when the stone falls into disrepute? And what happens to the stone when the water turns to vapour? Is an Icon real or is reality an Icon? People meet by [...]

Posted in Bath, iPhoneography, Japan, London, Photography, Prose, United Kingdom | Tagged Bath, catch-up, coffee, honne, icon, iPhone, Japan, prose, reflecting, respect, tatamae, truth, whisky | Leave a comment

The artist, the photographer and the rain

By mickyates | Published October 17, 2012

I, The Painter I paint with the magic brush of a new vision My work is such, as the world has never seen I attempt to capture life’s meaning with solid colour But really I can [...]

Posted in Bath, HDR, Photography, United Kingdom, Writing | Tagged artist, Bath, Beatles, HDR, photographer, prose, rain, writing | Leave a comment

Personal Brand – Imagery & Philosophy

By mickyates | Published October 11, 2012

Correction philosophy is not what should be nor is it what was it is simply what is I wrote that simple verse in 1969 (!) but it came back to me after the events of this past [...]