P.R. Ramer — writer & photographer — Page 3 of 4 — To dream, to ponder, to understand

Thoughts on the Best Camera

30 October 20189 November 2018 Leave a comment by P.R. Ramer

There is no best camera brand or camera model, and there is no best camera technology. The best camera is not the one that has the most impressive specifications or the one that costs the most or even is the most desired by your friends or the public. It isn’t even the one you happen … Read more Thoughts on the Best Camera

Poetry

Imaginen

14 March 20243 November 2018 Leave a comment by P.R. Ramer

Privately I have created
This space immaterial
Sincerely fit to entertain
Memorable guests immortal

Thoughts

The Company of Dreams

30 October 201830 October 2018 Leave a comment by P.R. Ramer

As one day follows another and enters the stream of indivisible past, I find myself pondering more the nature of dreams and of reality. This musing has been influenced particularly by the filmmaker David Lynch, as well as prior work in my classes on composite imagery and a growing interest in ontology, the study of … Read more The Company of Dreams

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Cradle

8 September 2018 by P.R. Ramer

There is sound from the neighboring room. There is sound and it’s an instrument being strummed. And there is a voice singing. There is a voice, and it’s singing in a tongue I don’t know. It’s singing a song and it’s soothing to me. It’s soothing and it’s swaddling my ailing mind.

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Grasping for Words

13 April 2018 by P.R. Ramer

Often as a writer I pour over whether what I am writing is something that should command any attention. I reach out for the ethereal words to grasp them from the semi-opaque vapors in my mind that pass for thoughts, trying earnestly to say something significant. It is nearly inexpressible how I often feel that this is an exercise in futility: I can never say it well enough. It will fail, I fear… I believe. I even wrote an untitled poem back in early March that I posted on my personal Instagram (@prramer) that spoke to this feeling of inevitable failure at words.

Alone

14 March 202415 February 2018 by P.R. Ramer

Present, living, seeing
Citizen but stranger
Unknown, insignificant

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As I Am

14 February 2018 by P.R. Ramer

It is gentle, soft, and whiteAnd tender, vulnerable, and pinkFull of uncertainty but comfortableI ask for nothing, expecting nothingYet there may be a home here for my soulMy heart is thankful for small gesturesI don’t know when I have ever felt so welcomeTo enter and remove the coat of my privacy and self-protectionTo seat my … Read more As I Am

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Spinning Out

14 March 202412 February 2018 by P.R. Ramer

Spinning
Spinning ’round
The earth, my head
It just won’t stop …

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Something Beautiful

30 January 2018 by P.R. Ramer

A yearning to fulfill
And a longing to create
Desiring to satisfy this want

Overlooked

29 January 2018 by P.R. Ramer

This is what I feared would happenAnd didn’t want to happenBut did happenI allowed myself to see possibilitiesTo develop feelings and grow attachedBut the possibility was snatchedAnd fate rudely substitutedHeartache for my hopeAnd tears for my happinessI will confessI want something trulyBut truly I do not wantTo hurt to find itI know trying is importantBecause … Read more Overlooked