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“Possessed”
The scarlet of her heart opens where she blooms deepest from the cuts of Past’s insanity her windows full green undressed him, in his mind; he confessed, in quiet reflection, he had lost his head irrevocably - and taking his brush dipped it in fresh rouge cadmium across her throat he wrote the words on her warm skin in his mind, soft as cream velvet, “Possessed”, across her heart he prints, “Here Circe’s Seduction Flows” in his mind, she is a witch goddess poet, words from her virtual bewitching... flow sensually he guides his artisan strokes from the bud of her ripe breast traversing the valley to her waist, Sisyphus glides over her thigh, he plays her like a harp for a while caresses her dark hair attentive, leaning in close breathing over her his breath whispering like a lover over her story he paints the Life in Her full Red “volupte liberti ad infiniti” are the final words he writes on her he is possessed (LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
“Her”/ Rosenfeld https://youtu.be/zCPVcWCgWCE
“I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.” Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red “the smear of red on the seashell lining of your skin is belle poésie” Avijeet Das “In red, you feel naked even when you are dressed.” Chloe Thurlow,The Secret Life of Girls “Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her, much less anything else around her. She takes up too much space. Also she's mad. Which has nothing to do with anything. She lives in her own world because she makes the whole world hers.” Kathy Acker,Eurydice in the Underworld
Artist: Jordi Diaz Alama https://www.diazalama.com Artist: Mitch Griffiths https://www.mitchgriffiths.com volupte liberti ad infiniti / Latin/translation. Corsican/translation. Sensuously/Sensually "The terms share the root sens-, which means to arouse the senses. Sensual has referred to gratifying carnal, especially sexual, senses since before 1425. Sensuous is believed to have been created by John Milton in 1641 to mean relating to the senses instead of the intellect without the sexual connotation." "Through the classical influence on modern culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean" A different kind of hero. "Le Mythe de Sisyphe"/Camus, 1942. (English Trans. 1955). Chapter - The Artist and His Time, Page 122. Chapter - The Absurd Man, Page 43. [Opening quote is a corker. ;)] Chapter - The Absurd Man, Don Juanism, Page 45 https://postarchive.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/myth-of-sisyphus-and-other-essays-the-albert-camus.pdf Salut(e), crazy cats with sharp claws and pigeons that coo.;)

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Date: 10/8/2020 4:28:00 AM
"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/8/2020 4:28:00 AM
“Rome is not outside me, but inside me. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.” Modigliani
Date: 10/6/2020 2:46:00 PM
He only has eyes for her. In this case more than that. Very well played Modesty ?
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/6/2020 3:40:00 PM
I think she may have fed that to that dog that sits at that ...place...guarding the gates of ...
Date: 10/6/2020 10:36:00 AM
wow! no one sees red more than the owned possession...great read! as to red circles - just one in the write (sensuously) and one in the pic - I think John's head needs to be on a red circular plate just to take it right over the edge of oozing crimson oomph! :))
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/6/2020 4:03:00 PM
I like switching up the stories Woodrow...my john becomes Sisyphus. ;) Yes, it was 4am in the morning when I completed the final brushstroke to the possessed, I agree with your thought, as I had similar thoughts. I may refine it a little today, but then again...the spell has been imprinted on the page through the virtual world. I will probably leave...it.
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Susan Woodrow
Date: 10/6/2020 3:46:00 PM
a red circle suggestion... I was trying to think of another word or even without, it is already very sensual but the word itself is a delight to say so if read aloud it is great! Oh, Sisyphus..I was seeing Salome and her Baptist :)
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/6/2020 3:37:00 PM
hmmm, unless you are suggesting I use another word other than sensuously, I have spelt the culprit correctly....are you trying to correct me? I shall have to correct you. That is not John's head, that is .....Sisyphus's fate.
Date: 10/6/2020 9:56:00 AM
do let me know if there are any red circles....
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 10/6/2020 3:43:00 PM
as long as they are not black...
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Ts Poetry
Date: 10/6/2020 2:43:00 PM
Lots and lots of red circles x

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