Be as wise as a serpent and as tender as a dove.
In London far right groups clash with participants at a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration.
A Moment of Kindness
Tag Archives: poetry
Tidepooling on the Big Island
View From My Chair mixed media 5″x 5″
Black lava meets sand
Warm water around my feet
The green turtle sleeps
JAZZ
Hot morning sun shapes
Blue jazz dance in my bookcase
I think of my friend.
Puppies And Poems
Cody is an English Cream Golden Retriever who lives in England with my daughter and her family. For three weeks I stayed at their home and babysat this cute puppy. Wondering what I was going to do with myself while I took care of him, I gave myself an assignment: Learn how to draw a dog. Besides sketching, I wrote some prose and a few poems. Maybe there is an Artists’ book in the making. I have the images and the words. The next step is figuring out a structural form for a book. Then, do it!
While slurping noodles, I was reminded of my trip to Vietnam
Cone hats
pattern flat
primary colors
of a Vietnamese
modern painting
While slurping noodles, I was reminded of my trip to Vietnam.
Curious Squirrel Discovers an Intruder – Sierra Nevada Mountains
Quick as lightening
Curious ground squirrel
Observes my pencil
I Followed a Feather Today – An Answer to Otto’s Post – Diversify and Become More Creative
Following a suggestion from Otto’s post, I took a walk. http://munchow.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/diversify-and-become-more-creative/
Check out two of my favorite dots, Otto and David. I think you will will be pleased, then go take a walk.
http://davidduchemin.com/2013/08/getting-unstuck/
A month ago I was painting 7 foot paintings about how I felt about the wars going on in this world, today. The paintings are waiting for me to come back to the studio. Meanwhile, I’ve been collecting dots, drawing trees, writing a little and following feathers down the street.
Catching the fall breeze
The seagull’s
Feather didn’t stay
Quaking Aspen – Sierra Nevada Mountain Range
Breeze flutters yellow
An inked twig catches the dance
School starts on Monday
How Do I Paint a Tree ? Sierra Nevada Mountain Range
We stopped on the way for In-N-Out Burgers
Fries and orders of strawberry milkshakes
Manmade shapes turned into nature’s biomorphic forms
As we climbed to a little under 7,000 feet
We baked french bread at this elevation
And didn’t make adjustments to the recipe
Straightening our limbs we step out of the car
First, just quickly go look at the pond!
Oh, look at the quivering yellow leaves on the Aspen tree!
Down by the creek’s edge, I look up
Past cottonwood trees at the water’s edge
I see a little fir Christmas tree tucked in
Between the tall green Jeffrey pines.
Chattering Monkeys
Wash out all those ghosts cobwebs worrywarts black cloud critters
chattering like monkeys in your swollen brain
swollen brain filled with piston-like repetiton
it’s wrong it’s wrong it’s wrong
not good enough for who? for tin man looking for his heart?
wash out all those ghosts cobwebs worrywarts and black cloud critters
chattering like monkeys in your swollen brain
quickly lay your thoughts out on the page
protect those tender shoots
close the book
walk away
