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Premium Member Serendipity Sublime

viridescent  wrench
adventitious
sparks  prompt
       yet
cloned camouflage 
for psyche
rue’d quandary
withered  wisps
   nebulous
blind sweep 
 to bolster
plangent  paean
  of
helium hinged
  extraneous
 life sojourn
brazen folly
  as
crimson cordon
ushers blurred
mystic squall
quirky quilt
  engulfing
behemoth blemish 
post sequence 
encrypted  kismet
punctual  launchpad
      to
 wizard woo
violin mesmerizing
allusive  pluck
sun-dried  spiccato
bouncing bow
   on
ear adorned
murmuration
intaglio instant
pregnant alms
   luxuriant
gazillion  gust 
      oe’r
hint endowed
sky syndicate’s
phantom limb
  an
opulent cascade 
ubiquitous umbra
    bequeathing
lush serendipity 
propitious prism
shadow conjuror
    of 
 lilac lavishness
  tangibly material
      as
cerebral chakra
intuits rapt
sublime sublimation

Premium Member Serendipity Sublime

Viridescent  wrench
adventitious
sparks  prompt
       yet
cloned camouflage 
for psyche’s
rue’d quandary
withered  wisps
   nebulous
blind sweep 
to bolster
plangent paean
  of
helium hinged
    extraneous
life sojourn
brazen folly
  as
crimson cordon
ushers blurred
mystic squall
quirky quilt
  engulfing
behemoth blemish 
post sequence 
encrypted  kismet
punctual  launchpad
      to
 wizard woo
violin mesmerizing
allusive  pluck
sun-dried  spiccato
bouncing bow
   on
ear adorned
murmuration
intaglio instant
pregnant alms
   luxuriant
gazillion  gust 
      oe’r
hint endowed
sky syndicate’s
phantom limb
  an
opulent cascade 
ubiquitous umbra
    bequeathing
lush serendipity 
propitious prism
shadow conjuror
    of 
lilac lavishness
tangibly material
      as
cerebral chakra
intuits rapt
sublime sublimation

Premium Member RELIEVISTA donatello

RELIEVISTA 
alto
  basso
mezzo cavo
intaglio
  embossed
     inverse
        en relief


Premium Member ENGRAVISTA durer goya

ENGRAVISTA 
en relief
 intaglio planar
grounded
  spur-like aquinted
grained
 messaging
of defined
    contour
       en register
meshed
  toothed
       burnished
         etched
dry painted
  playground
in stippled
     precision
 stopped out
    imperious
       masks
dense& painterly
serigraphs

Intaglio

The rabbit died
in the shadow of its body,
coming to rest as an imprint,
a texturing of space.

A busy rot
has etched its life into the earth.

Extinction endures,
to be read as a heartbeat
taking its leave.

Premium Member Hiku Ekphrais Etching

intaglio
delicate incisions
in soft outline


The Road

Dark stripe night-like silvery shadow,
  Bottom of an earthen pot of a kind,
  Hallowed sepia-eyes of Black Dahlia in her dying glow
  Expressway etched intaglio,
  Through miles of my crazy driving mind,
 
  It is dawn,
  Under  a cloud, peeps the sun,
  While morning dew is still fresh,
  On the leafy flesh,
 
  In front lies my life,
  The sesame yawning road doses starving,
  It is the day of my harvest moon
  And i must be home,
  To reap the corn of lonely broken hearted living,
 
  Embarking on a journey to build my hope,
  On the beyond stubbles of life,
  By loosely trailing on so labyrinthine along a
  strange rope,
  Where will this romance
  With the Anaconda leads?
  Maybe destined like the road to somewhere leads,
  When will this sojouner comes to the remembrance
  And comes to the crossroads,
  Of life's all unending trods?
  Helplessly! my days keep throwing up the sponge, 
  When will i plunge
  Into the mirage ocean,
  Of oblivion?
 
  This road leads  
  To the sleepy lull,
  This road leads 
  To the seraphic soul,
  Over the lily covered Hilly
  Down the unbeknownst far fir forested valley,
  It goes on eternally.

Who Played Chopin? I Did!

Who played Chopin on piano?
Fantasie-Impromptu much blithe.
Was so fast like when the winds blow.
Runs, magically came to life.
 
The Christmas party gave great joy.
Who played Chopin on piano?
For every little girl and boy.
There even sang a soprano.
 
The piano was intaglio.
Ornamented on the surface.
Who played Chopin on piano?
Making carved figures seem to race.
 
Pianos are such lovely things.
Melodious as the white snow.
The many strings are made to ring.
Who played Chopin on piano?

The Ennui of the Lost

Ennui conspires insipid moods
infringing human awareness,
ruled by a lunatic vision,
not controlled by insight and lucidity;
and a desire for a Dolce Vita
mollifies a false illusion
to appear on an intaglio, to gradually
become a shining insignia.


To steer a ship, takes effort and patience,
and if its course is guided by favorable winds,
all is well for the adventurous captain;
and should he lose focus, lured by lunacy and nihilism,
his enthusiasm wears off and failure sets in...
and his ship will lurch on unfriendly waves,
and his ennui deprives him of courage to deviate
from the safe route when nocturnal vision is lost indeed.


Ennui insinuates myopia,
muzzling the voice and halting 
the mind's performance,
thus forging the promise of utopia; 
and the hunch is to pursue intuition
whenever it may lead...being
the holster controlling the steed,
getting rid of the humdrum and huff,
humming and ignoring the hourglass,
which trickles the sand to infuse fear.

Ennui of the Lost

Ennui conspires insipid moods
infringing human awareness,
ruled by a lunatic vision,
not controlled by insight and lucidity;
and desires of a Dolce Vita
mollify a false illusion
to appear on an intaglio, to gradually
become a shining insignia.


To steer a ship, takes effort and patience,
and if its course is guided by favorable winds,
all is well for the adventurous captain;
and should he lose focus, lured by lunacy and nihilism,
his enthusiasm wears out and failure sets in...
and his ship will lurch on unfriendly waves,
and his ennui lessens courage to deviate
from the safe route when nocturnal vision is lost indeed.


Ennui insinuates myopia,
muzzling the voice and halting 
the mind's performance,
thus forging the promise of  utopia; 
and the hunch is to pursue intuition
whenever it may lead...being
the holster controlling the steed,
getting rid of the humdrum and huff,
humming and ignoring the hourglass,
which trickles sand to infuse fear.

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