October 26, 2013 Sunday Whirl #132

Fragments G&C #153   30"x30" gouache on w/c paper

Fragments of Squares and Triangles
Flames burn bright
In the corner
Kiva fire place
Winter is just 
Arriving

Makes heart yearn
For other days
With weather
Still warm

Yet the warm fire 
In the corner
Feels safe
When waking
On cold winter's
Morn

Feelings of the heart
Are immeasurable
Erode confidence
Make the world
Inky
A bend in the road
Difficult

Still the pebble
In my shoe
Causes me to slow down
While painting with clay
The squares and triangles
Drawn on the sheet
Before me

Note: I always like to work in winter, the landscape has lost it's bright color, except for the clear blue New Mexico sky.  I snuggle into the warm studio and spend my days at work, painting squares and triangles, investigating all possibilities.  The image is one of the last completed works.  My medium of choice is gouache, a paint made of clay.


Prompt: flames, yearn, immeasurable, safe, inky, bend
waking, still, erode, clay, sheet, pebble
 

Home Alone

Routine is changed

Bags packed

Placed bye the door

They think

I don’t know

Haven’t noticed

They are going somewhere

Maybe we are all going

They took me before

Taking things to the hudaroo

I follow them back and forth

I try to jump in the hudaroo

They put me in the house

Shutter the windows

Pat my head

Promise to return

I turn my back to them

I know what they are doing

Lock the door

I’m alone

The hudaroo roars down the drive

I sadly sing

My tribal song to myself

Will they ever return

Purr, purr, purr

Home alone ---- again

Note:  We were thinking how it must be from Beau's point of view.  When we get ready to go somewhere he knows, follows us, and then when he figures out he isn't going, he is very sad.

October 19, 2013 Sunday Whirl #131/Poets United #172

Behind the Fence

Off balance

Or perfectly centered

No way to cheat

While walking the line
Yet life is an amalgam
And often I don't know
The difference

A piece of gravel
In my shoe
Trash in my pockets
Have no idea
Where I am headed
Down the yellow brick road
With nothing on my mind

Your tentacles
Follow me
Your notices
Posted
Come back to safety
Remain behind
The brick fence
Red and wonderous

Create your own world
Stitch your mouth closed
Balance everything
Keep your secrets
Behind the fence
You won't know
The difference

Note:  There is no way to know the lives of others, it is a secret world behind the fence.  Do you tell everything?  Or are there some things you don't want to share?

Prompt:

amalgam, gravel, trash, nothing, cheat, vacant, 

brick, mouth, tentacles, fence, notices, everything, balance

October 13, 2013 Sunday Whirl #130

(Image from the internet)

Right to the edge

Born for nothing less

There are so many bends

And circles

Is it a drunkard's path

Your idea trumps

All others

Thunder claps in

The distance

Pray for rain

Extinction of the world

Predicted

Yet we are sleepy

When it comes

To solutions

Dry up and blow away

I am not a phophet

Just an artist

One who makes 

Pictures and mends hearts

Prompt:edge, trumps, drunkard, world, mends, binds

prophet, born, expected, circles, sleepy, thunder

Saturday October 5, 2013 Sunday Wordle #129

Secrets of a Clever Gambler

Take a chance

Place your bet

Clever gambler

That you are

Streets swept clean

Apples ripe on the tree

Stars blink bright

Flesh raw 

Men that are not free

Fill the basket

Put away the saw

Shake hands

Work together

Build a nest

Of flesh and bone

Throw the dice

Count the dots
On ivory
Black on white

Take a chance

Place your bet

Clever gambler

That you are

Prompt:  chance, nest, secret, clever, swept, ripe, 

blinked, stars, basket, flesh, saw, hand