Hi everyone,
I did something like this for Lorette at Ekphrastic: Writing on Art and Art on Writing. I am offering you the opportunity to write 10 publishable poems in 10 days. I will edit the work for you IF YOU'D LIKE. I will post it here I will only accept the first to sign up. 1. Andrew 2.. Kim 3. Robert 4. Craig 5. Danetta 6. Jeanette 7. Olive
Ekphrastic: Writing on Art and Art on Writing [this site ACCEPTS reprints] http://www.ekphrastic.net/submissions.html
PAINTING #1
Blue and Green Music by Georgia O'Keeffe 1921
Write anything that comes to mind in any form based on both your intellectual and emotional response to this painting.
PAINTING #2
Portrait of Carol Nye Rhoades (Robinson) by Katherine Nash Rhoades 1915
PAINTING #3
The Blue Cat by Pamela Colman Smith 1907
PAINTING #4
Lake by Georgia Engelhard
#5
Autumn in France by Emily Carr 1911
#6
Theater by Mary Cassatte 1879
#7
Twilight Confidences by Cecilia Beaux 1888
#8
L'Enfant au Tablier Rouge, 1886 by Berthe Morisot
#9
Morning at the Quay in Venice by Helen Allingham
#10
Thistle in a Field, by Fidelia Bridges 1875
My choices are purely SUBJECTIVE
Painting #1 verse Beyond the Paint by Kim Patrice Nunez
Nature's Psalms by Olive Eloisa Guillermo
Painting #2 verse A Note to My Niece by Craig Cornish
A Mother's Envy & Pride by Kim Patrice Nunez
Painting #3 verse Magical Mountain Where Blue Cat Resides by Robert Lindley
Painting #4 verse Swept Away by Danetta Barney
Frozen by Jeanette Jones
Painting #5 verse Gifted by Kim Patrice Nunez
Painting #6 verse Fragile by Danetta Barney
Painting #7 verse Two Mayflower Maidens by Andrew Crisci
Painting #8 verse Mice and Me by Jeanette Jones
The Impressionist Daughter by Andrew Crisci
Painting #9 verse Morning Wait by Kim Patrice Nunez
The Lagoon by Craig Cornish
Painting #10 verse Thistles Growing in my Grass by Andrew Crisci
There was a Valley Meadow Resting There by R. Lindley
There Was A Valley Meadow Resting There
There was a valley meadow resting there,
plant life flourishing in its golden views.
Painted on canvas brings awe inspired stare
marveling at multi-colored hues.
Dancing beneath a decorated sky,
were vivid colors bouncing back and forth.
Artist, image, soft colors blend to tie
with clouds breezing above from the cold North.
Captured beauty, splashed on by artist's paints,
breathlessness in its tantalizing scenes,
paradise complete yet where are the saints
praising it by any and every means?
Splashed canvas held scenes of grass and flowers.
We gasp at all those colored showers!
Thistles Growing In My Grass
Thistle in a Field, by Fidelia Bridges 1875
Hurdles have been a battle of compromises,
worse than thistles growing in my grass;
they prick me when I weed them out;
and I bleed on them when I'm fraught.
Two souls crossed this long path of sultry stillness,
one gladly went away, the other sadly stayed;
Restless is the one feeling wrath. The unfairness
of fate is a crucial debate hurling words of hatred.
The farther these footsteps trudge,
the longer time delays their aim;
hardening the core of rightful claim.
The unuttered rage is another unheard cry
of my wailing and it may suddenly
cease along with the essence of my existence.
Absurd the thought, the pretense of not weeping,
there's much unneeded silence in this field of weeds;
much has been endured at the bristling point of leaves-
unable to find shade under a tree, I burn painfully.
Life must return with the thrilling
sounds of robins and blue jays,
with gaudy flowers rising in the spring,
and with a happy deer that leaps.
I won't be a keeper of another failed quest;
blackened clouds of a treacherous storm
will turn bright by sunset...
to bring all things to norm.
Yes, tomorrow will open doors and dismiss
restlessness, promising days without tears;
I'll be able to live my life,without counting years,
getting rid of the thistles growing in my grass.
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