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Creative Gratitudes
ArtPhoto-Poems
Vol 1
Copyright © 2012 by Felipe Adan Lerma
Cover & Book Design by Felipe Adan Lerma
Photography by Sheila & Adan Lerma
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Update 040112
Vol 1 of “Creative Gratitudes” is also a sort of sampler of future volumes of this series.
While I used a variety of effects from Photoshop in this edition, it is planned that future editions
will tend to focus on one or two styles of affect per volume.
Impressionistic renderings will mark the style of Vol 2, while embossing in various manners, is
planned for use in Vol 2.
If you have a favorite effect, please let me know at yoga dot adan at gmail dot com.
Also, if you’ve enjoyed this work, please tell your friends, and consider leaving a review on any
outlet’s listings, or clicking the “like” button such on Amazon.
Thank you much,
Adan
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Please note, the Forward has been moved to the back of this book to allow more space for
sampling.

Sincerely,
Adan Lerma
March 29, 2012
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“Creative Gratitudes” as a series, is unique among my various works.
Most of my other series, “A Month of Mornings,” “Everyday Gratitudes,” and “Everyday
Inspirations” are specifically focussed on what we encounter in the every day.
Even the images are of the “every day.”
Typically, that means events and images and verse that are not necessarily dramatic, or overly
exciting. Some might even say boring.
But they are of the every day. What it takes and means for most of us to live from yesterday
through today to tomorrow. And many times, dramatic things do happen, but more so inside.
When we contemplate and allow the mystery of even being alive to speak to us.
This series, “Creative Gratitudes,” allows me some leeway into exploration.
Taking an image from the set from which I chose an image for one of my every day photopoem
books, one that appeals to me, I literally “play” with it. I experiment with filters, adjustments,
anything at all that seems to propel the image to the point where it inspires me to write a poem
for it.
Plus, it’s fun for me to do. ;-)
And like the image work I present in “Photography Plus, a Beginners View,” these images and
creative work are from a myself as a layman, not a professional. Which means, these are
creative projects that most anyone can do and feel good about.
I hope you enjoy these as well, and consider leaving a review and telling your friends.
Thanks so much,
Sincerely,
adan
march 26, 2012
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One
i am grateful

for the treasures
buried safely in my depths
protected by the quiet
the stillness
of
eternity
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Two
i am grateful
for the lines of life
that streak and color
across the waiting
surface of my
life
shadows light
ridges and
rumples
all framed
by the layers
of
living in each day
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Three
for my expanses
reaching
both
the
light
and the dark
i am grateful

granting
texture into my life
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Four
different viewpoints are
often shimmers
reflections
that
i am grateful for
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Five
our points and lines of
awareness
are the living
framework
we can rest upon
and be grateful
for
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Six
i am grateful for
the steps placed before me
revealing depths within
the road
ahead
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Seven
to be grateful
for
the motions

and
the stillnesses
is
to be grateful for the balances
in my life
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Eight
i am grateful
for the viewing blocks
that piece together
the views
of
my life
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Nine
softness
is a gratitude
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Ten
i am grateful
for
the many colors
reaching with me
for the sky
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Inside Index
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Series Titles With Differing Covers
Most of my series volumes use one image for each release. This is true for my “Month of
Mornings” - “Everyday Gratitude” - and “101 Sports Poems” series.
However, because the visual, in this case my photography, is a changing partnering component,
with my writing, of the content of “Everyday Inspirations in Photo-Poems,” those covers will
appear in this supplemental section of my eBook Titles.
Thanks so much, sincerely,
adan
february 17, 2010

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Inside Index
Dedication
The idea for this series developed organically, naturally, from my previous
series of every day writings and image-poems. Thus, for this series, I
would like to dedicate this work, to all those who struggle, and enjoy, the
daily dance with “process.”
I know I often forget that, set-backs and accomplishments, both, are but
spots along our daily roads, the process of our living.
So to everyone everywhere who celebrates and accepts their awareness of
“being in process” I dedicate this work to you.
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Inside Index
Forward
Creative Gratitudes
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven

Eight
Nine
Ten
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Dedication
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