Tag: Monochrome-Madness
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Early Youth a Memory
This abstract is based on the watercolor below. They were done about a day apart. That’s just how my mind works… take something fairly ordinary and deconstruct it, make something ‘different’ out of it… Youth – A Distant Memory When very youngGot lost and coldSpanked for runningOut in the roadEscaped fromRope-tied pantsBy taking them off…
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Late Seasons Haiku and Celebration Painting
Late Seasons Haiku windswept blades of grass,velcro for decaying leaves —crows hunt for treasure a crow is calling,thrice, rest, thrice, rest, again thrice —rose-glass filtered sun wet snow all around,parking lot puddles soak shoes —tracking salt inside –LE
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Return of the Snow
Return of the Snow snow is comingin flurries and squallsin storms and gently fallingclouds of snow-dust swirls, where each flake, an ice crystal,glimmers in moonshine,and under street lights,headlights, and lighted windows, casting long shadows,creates snowscapes — alien,breathtaking, mysteriouslystark, yet somehow warm, a home gently shroudedin glistening shades ofwhite, blue, black, and gray,while honeyed shades drip…
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Reality an Idea
Reality an Idea Humans haveThe gift of wordsTo express and informWhat’s real And what’s not Make us soarOr cry and deploreSet us upFor the big failUnquestioninglyConsumed as real They express ideasSymbols physicalMental audibleThoughts individualCultural universalSwimming inGraymatter domesCan be changedAt whim and willThe cryptic tomesOf Reality –LE
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3) Where the Declaration of Independence declared the “unalienable Rights” of all men, the Constitution substituted the rights of the wealthy to property and power. It is not a “holy” document. It can, and has been changed multiple times over its history (usually to the benefit of power…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3) The ruling classes, the rich elite (in their own minds) claim ownership and stewardship of all the discovered and undiscovered resources and the land masses of the planet. Ninety-nine percent of humanity lives at the “pleasure,” beck and call of this one percent. The rest live in…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3) • No one chose where and to whom he/she was born. • We were all born in the “amniotic fluid” (biosphere) of our mother, Earth. • None of our direct biological mothers would be viable without that same “amniotic fluid” either. • From our present understanding of…
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Don’t Pick Up That Phone
This is my response to all the cold-calls and messages I recieve, even though I’m on the ‘Natioanl Don’t Call Register’… Ha! What a joke… Don’t Pick Up That Phone rather pick-up sticksor hexagram wandsor telegramsinstructions for hallucinationsdelusions of grandeurconjure objects of desireor the lack thereof, whereofwhile writing trivial essaysabout wealth and gainat the expenseof…
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From the Summer of 2009 (Some things never seem to change)
Intro: Cleveland OH – Summer ’09, lunch time, walking the industrial parkway in 90+ degrees. Lunch Time Walk The first cicadas of the season trill through occasional traffic lulls on the boulevard,Walking through Liatris, Cat Tails, andPeriwinkle-blue Chicory, andQueen Anne’s lace in the ditches. As I stroll past manicured, dead brown lawns, evidence of this year’s long…
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Purples, Reds, Blues, and Some Other Hues
Purple Purple, the wearing of, the power of, purple passion,purple haze, purple rain, purple stains of wine, of the lipsfrom “the Arrakine spice,” purple dreams–passionatescenes, onions, one-eyed, one-horned, flying purplepeople eaters, purple mountains majesties, purpleillusions—tragedies, shades of reds and blues, some of thedarker hues. *** Red, better dead than, red faced, red handed, red neck,red…
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