From dark moist soft
secrets
an orchid shoots up
to vertical stretch.
Yellow, green, purple
transformed
into plum
moonshine.
So sweet with sticky juice
Is it the mouth of Jonah’s whale
this tongue leading to the freckled
depths
of a measled ocean?
From dark moist soft
secrets
an orchid shoots up
to vertical stretch.
Yellow, green, purple
transformed
into plum
moonshine.
So sweet with sticky juice
Is it the mouth of Jonah’s whale
this tongue leading to the freckled
depths
of a measled ocean?
🙂
Beautiful, Carla!
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This was made with wax, squirts of water color. and a little gold paint on mulberry or ‘rice’ paper.
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Yes, beautiful.
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Thank you. where do I see your paintings?
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Yes, indeed!
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I’m glad you like this one richard.
Carla
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thank you, Carla. With hurrahs for all things freckled, speckled, who knows how.
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I think this poem was written with Carolyn.
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Yum.
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Working with hot wax on mulberry paper was challenging but the results were so beautiful especially when the sun peeks through them
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mouth of Jonah’s whale – so I don’t like to swim in the ocean …
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LOL I think of Fairyland when my children were little.It was small and pink but to them huge, a little walk down a hill to look into the mouth of the whale. There was a little fish tank there displaying little fish 🙂
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I love both painting and poem. Really lovely. I am happy to have found you!
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I enjoyed reading your posts. Gus would have liked to meet Darwin.
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I like the tale of Jonah, but this painting opens up for so many interpretations. For instance I see – not necessarily clearly – a shark speeding down in the sea. I just love the colours and the shapes. All so dynamic and organic. Beautiful words, too.
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Thank you, Otto. Happy holidays to you. I look forward to another year of blogging with you. Carla
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I’d be very marvelous for me to be in the bottom of the ocean, and miraculous :D.
Happy Christmas and A Merry New Year!
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Merry Christmas Rommel ! Happy New Year !!
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Great work! I really liked this one 🙂
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Thanks. I wish I could come up with more like this one. My muse just visits every so often 🙂
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🙂
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