Master to pleasure
5 May 2019
Shadowed skies
Glow in sunlit moon
The closed palms
Open soon
Twist and turn to hidden rune
Heaving written lies
Silent start
Journey in the wake
Slave in part
Teacher’s art
Ice he laid upon my heart
Never to depart
Steep the cost
A pound no measure
In the frost
Words were lost
Riddles once all my treasure
Master to pleasure
Reading of the poem:
North – Hammock
Moon Petals
15 November 2017
Grey dawns pearl
Pushing back the night
It subsides
In circles
The Sun picking up the strides
Invades horizons
New day born
From womb that was torn
Miracles
Pulsating
Within mind’s webs creating
Remnants of her Art
The Mother
She anointed me
Moon Petals
Whispering
The moment when prayers ring
To temples in heart
Reading of the poem:
Shoot the Moon – Norah Jones
Nightingale – Norah Jones
LoneStar – Norah Jones
Summoning her Frame
1 September 2017
Wonderland
Place of Miracles
Where we pray
Where we stray
Spending light through sun’s array
Countenance at bay
Seething sand
Makes me obstacles
Which I grind
In my mind
Through memories I unwind
Past hidden unkind
Singing band
Grant me spectacles
Unknown fame
Face no name
Shimmering through light path tame
Summoning her frame
Reading of the poem:
Flying Elephants (part 1) – Gregory Colbert
Flying Elephants (part 2) – Gregory Colbert
Ashes and Snow – Gregory Colbert
Shake my faith
29 August 2017
Hunger bites
Morsels of the mind
She offered
Fruit of old
To compensate the feeling
Of bowels reeling
Candy cake
Sugar on the top
Sickening
Slice of lies
Their ancestry picked from flies
Uneven outposts
We held hosts
In kingdom’s shiver
In quiver
Shake my faith
I will show you wizened strait
Measure of my wait
Reading of the poem:
When you believe – Whitney Houston and Maria Carey
Oil pastels and an oil painting
29 August 2017
I have not usually favoured the use of pastels as I feel somewhat hindered by the amount of mess they often generate which cannot be somehow « fixed » unlike oils and to an extent acrylic and aquarelle.
My daughter on the other hand was so enamoured with soft pastels that it got me thinking I should perhaps revisit the subject. I had both oil and soft chalk pastels and decided upon the oils to complement the oil painting of flowers in a vase.
I hope you like all of them.
Colours of the wind – Vanessa Williams
Pencil sketches
29 August 2017
Today I am sharing two divergent moods in the sketches. One is of a flamenco dancer having fun and one is a drawing inspired by the cover of the CD of Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
I thought the sombre vis-à-vis light mood was quite interesting to look at and hope you like them.
How do you leave the one you love – Katherine Jenkins
Seventh aquarelle : Cherry blossom tree branch
24 August 2017
I am back to my initial challenge of 10 aquarelles and have taken as subject a cherry blossom branch given the recent synchronicity on cherry trees. This time I combined alla prima type of painting with wet on dry painting.
It occurred to me that just looking at pink made me cheerful. Perhaps that is where the French saying « voir le monde avec des lunettes roses » (meaning looking at the world with rose-coloured glasses) comes from 🙂
I hope you will enjoy the painting and the typical song I thought would accompany it well.
Sakura – Japanese folk music
