Mixed Media on Paper

"Shatter"

8 x 8 mixed media on paper

2013

Sonnet IX: There where the waves shatter

There where the waves shatter on the restless rocks

the clear light bursts and enacts its rose,

and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds,

to one drop of blue salt, falling.

O bright magnolia bursting in the foam,

magnetic transient whose death blooms

and vanishes--being, nothingness--forever:

broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea.

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,

while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,

collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:

because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,

galloping water, incessant sand,

we make the only permanent tenderness. 

~Pablo Neruda

Poetry and a Path to Recovery

Abby Louise

My good friend, Rebecca from Art Paw and Art Dog Blog told me that it's actually National Poetry month this month. In the spirit of that...I'm posting another poem from the book, "When Only the Love Remains". I feel like I'm very much in a recovery period after Abby's passing so this seemed very timely and appropriate...and it's really beautiful.

RECOVERY

You must recover,
Somehow, someday;
They will all go -
Every last one of them
To a God who will love them
Just as much,
To a place where illness will
Never again touch them,
To a comfort of the
Greatest proportion
That shall ease any lingering
Degree of pain;
To a new life that will
Deny them
Nothing.

And for any of you poetry fans out there...one of my favorite books of poetry is, "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" by Pablo Neruda. It's amazing...Neruda is one of the best in my opinion.

On another note...just finished up two paintings today so I will be excited to show them to you in the next day or so. In the meantime...have a nice Thursday night!