CJ

Facebook message 25th August 2013

You fill me with inspiration like no other - I have a poem rumbling about my head as I look at your photograph - And initially I guess my thoughts are nowhere near any kind of reality but I’ll give it a go and if I get anything from it I’ll post it in Blogger.

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Here is one I did earlier of CJ my Nigerian heartthrob, my best Web friend by far.  I have never known anyone who has been able to inspired me more than CJ and at times I cannot put my finger on why that is.  I look at the photographs or “Selfies” (As they are now known) that CJ produces and I compare them with Selfies produced by others.  On the surface there is little difference between one and the other but a little deeper there is a huge gulf between the Selfies others take and the portraits that CJ produces.

I feel sure that if she had a little training she could be a great photographer.

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She hated her job and left hoping to find employment elsewhere.  Over the months she was unable to find any other employment and became deeply depressed.  She told me the other night that she asked for her job back and even included a smiley face in her message to me about getting her old job back

I’ve posted this image here in the hope of attracting CJ along for a look see.  The original photograph has me brimming with inspiration and there are a whole number of ideas I have from the other half of the above photograph, including images of cells, poems and animated gifs.

I get Inspiration from many places, none so more than CJ.

Hi CJ, how you keeping?

Are you hiding a smile?

Or have you gone through a trial?

Whichever way

One way or the other

The four walls remain silent

As they cling to one another

So I’ll never know

The thoughts in your head

“I’m fine”

Are words

That are easily said

Instead

Of repeating those thoughts that go round in your head

You put on a face

When about the place

And always ready for the next one that says

“How are you keeping?”