Swans
...Swans steam across the lake.
Streaming in, heads held high.
Strung out in single file.
Stippling surface with wakes.
Signaling flock to join.
Sensing storm clouds brewing,
Shuddering storm ahea...
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Categories:
stippling, autumn, bird, storm,
Form: Pleiades
As Another July Day Dawns
...As Another July Day Dawns
Stippling . . .
The leaves of the trees
S p a t t e r i n g …Their
Silhouettes
filling my window
(Barely to be seen while stll so early)
The dark dot...
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Categories:
stippling, christmas, dark, imagery, july,
Form: Imagism
Remodeling
...Get out your sponges, stippling brushes and pens,
It’s time for makeover-Monday-night to begin.
Think Winky Lux, L’Oréal, Urban Decay,
Maybelline, Armani and Fabergé
It’s a black magic realm wh...
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Categories:
stippling, celebration, color, creation, fun,
Form: Free verse
A Life Recovered
...A life recovered from Stygian depths
tainted by the horrors of dark abyss.
He falters as he takes one thousand steps,
a life recovered.
Pale sunlight stippling through with warming bliss,
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Categories:
stippling, addiction, faith, god, recovery
Form: Roundel
Painting In Vertigo
...Somedays, I wake up and my mind is a buzz with the low hum of drunk bees. Other days it's the homicidal scree of the Purge siren meets the absurdity of Happy Gilmore. Those days, the mood stabilizers...
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Categories:
stippling, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
dear Gustav -
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Gustav, how you pique the senses
captured passion's plural tenses
lovers twined in percale folds
caught supine with spattered golds
porcelain dolls in feta...
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Categories:
stippling, art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form: Ekphrasis
Landscapes - Picturesque Burano
...Where to place the rippling paint uponthe whitish canvas, setting on a beast of burden,with a palette of bright watery pastels loadedLike a ...
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Categories:
stippling, art, betrayal, imagery, lust,
Form: Free verse
Dusky Stone
...Dark stones...........
Painted in dusky dark
Deepening hues
Deepening views
Dusky gold
Dusky dark
Dusky stone..........
We are not alone
Dusky stones,
gather on the shore
Dusk...
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Categories:
stippling, imagination, nature, uplifting, sea,
Form: Ballad