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DAVID : Sculpture : Michelangelo: Florence : 1501

“Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone, so long as ruin and dishonour reign ; to bear nought, to feel nought, is my great gain ; then wake me not, speak in an undertone !” Michelangelo, Sculptor in Rome _________ • DAVID • in your FULL beauty you stand erect vulnerable completely exposed + naked in confidence = strengthened simplicity /// in MIGHTY surrender to ALL that exists fearlessly stating : “You may judge I judge you not” we long to touch your exuding unmatrixed divine warrior proportions to turn your head enter your ____ irises yet already we are One with your curls and ripples our meridians flowing ~ ~>> with yours through neck fingers muscular to god-rope torso as we watch for nervous twitches there is none will You allow us to merge with your exposed mysticism ? a lioness masculinity or is your aperture message : seek your own from whence I’ve come to hence I ______ j o u r n e y >>> ••• climax your own odes ! OODDES your stature of perfection graced by aquiline nose madonna lips _________ b a r e l y perceptible indignation bends not to our unevolved stare of A. W. E. as we wonder that we too contain all your agape ~ flawless in p r e s e n t a t ION of *****sapiens S A PIEnS what do you EXPRESS but potential incarnate an undeniable trust in ***** impossibilities *** * that is yeT to be created in form from infinite f o r m l e s s n e s s appearances from WILL TO BE not any whisper or S I. L. E. N. C. E. gives justice to delicate throbbing of our blood as it ~ invisible ~ moves o u t of pores into your carrara stone Beingness of audience em bra CEs your limbs divinely carved we eNter Presence of your MASTER ——— simultaneously entering his CREATOR’s H e a r t ¥ to melt into marble forever unified with all elevated elements both Heaven and Earth GOD + man-woman % grateful humility are our concrete *utterances* we are enabled to OFFER : MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI magnitudinal Sculptor DoB : 6.3.1475 DieD : 1564 who tread the path of sacrificial expression eating bread and onion for days on end, suffer ING in artistic mastery flat on back making w A y for those who followed and are /// t o c o m e _____ & @ £ % we stumble in stupor e n t r a n c e d awed to coffee cups grinding us back to our own piece of cake P E A C E D a forward moving ?? orchestra ?? we >>>> continue to fit-fix our own human JIg Saws erroneously misaligned SALUTing statue and SculPtoR in R O M E ========================

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