Barbara C. Rowe's Blog, page 2
May 20, 2015
Sweet Addiction
Originally posted on Poesy plus Polemics:
“Coffee”
Painting by Mark Kazav
From artid.com
luxurious liquid
of mornings
a smooth silky brown
deep as pools of
Italian-born eyes
rich aromas of lush
equatorial mountains
a taste that transmits
to the brain
a warm wakening
opens receptors
to savory words
of an organic muse
here is stimulus
eagerly drawn
from the pleasure of
daily familiar routine
creativity found
in each sip
ingenuity plumbed
from each swallow
a gentle dependency
bearing the traits
of a vice that
by my lights
conforms to a virtue
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Private Dialogue
Originally posted on Poesy plus Polemics:
“Woman Looking in a Mirror”
Painting by Richard Edward Miller
From encore-editions.com
burn the green wood
kill the young
nascent saplings
emergent from
rich loamy wombs
before time
(so you tell yourself)
ever feels pain
before trauma to
rootstock of memory
call it humane
this cold intervention
supposing that forests
when left to their
natural development
suffer from
certain privations
too many grown trees
who compete for
too little fresh air
in a landscape
too wanting of
less oppressed
access to sun
you have choice
(so you tell yourself)
free to decide
and what heart
would choose suffering
knowing the world
gets along
(so you tell yourself)
hardly diminished
and never to miss
a mere few
generations
of trees
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Questions
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Painting Vladimir Volegov
“Mummy! What is that?”
Why does the kitten meow?
Why the sky is blue?”
There are so many questions,
Haikus give her the answers.
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Sarit
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Painting Vladimir Volegov
When Sarit smiles,
The sun shines in my soul,
I fly to heaven.
She is my sun, my moon, my
Universe, my true candle.
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Poppies
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Painting by Vladimir Volegov
The horses gallop
In the steppe covered by
A sea of poppies.
Memories of true freedom
Dancing in my consciousness.
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Patience
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Art by Gocer Art
Be patient, Sarit!
Life is a violin, you are
Its only bow.
You must be soft and smile,
Your life will be a great tune.
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Serenity
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Painting by Steve Henderson
The Shabbat begins,
I light the two candles and
My soul flies away.
I reach the shore of serene
Moments, I find harmony.
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Rotten
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Gynophobia and
Racism and homophobia…
they are the same thing.
Otherness disturbs rotten
Hearts, the loveless souls.
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Stelle
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Art by Karol Bak
Una canzone
D’amore che riscalda
Il cuore stanco,
Una serata con te,
E le stelle danzano.
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Fallen
Originally posted on Hortus Closus:
Painting by An He
What am I doing
Here? This world is insane.
Emptiness reigns.
People enjoy delusion
Can we change it with the arts?
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