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About My Painting, I Guess You Could Say I’m a Decent Poet
NuNu, Acryic on panel, 6″ x 6″ I painted that for Chris. It is not, what you’d call, a “good likeness.” (Of NuNu, that is, not Chris. If it were a painting of Chris, it would be horrid. Being as … Continue reading
Got Poem? Not Really
You know that old saw that the path to Hell is paved with good intentions? That’s actually a mistake. There is no path to Hell, only a lot of detours and wrong turns. Which is what I was doing today. … Continue reading
Art, Poems, and Art-Poems
On Saturdays, I really need to get out of the house for a few hours, otherwise I begin to root to the couch, and get all depressive. So today my husband Chris and I went to lunch at Desi Spice, one … Continue reading
Guilty :-(
Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been 5 days since I wrote a poetry postcard. (And about 6 years since I went to Confession, while I’m at it.) So I haven’t been writing in my blog because … Continue reading
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The Procrastinatrix
That would be me. I have been crazy-busy at work the last several days with registration and panicky students who send 8 e-mails when 1 or 2 would suffice–so crazy, in fact, that when I came home yesterday I made … Continue reading
Damn that Caravaggio
I spent a lot of this evening trying (unsuccessfully–there’s a big surprise) to write a poem about Caravaggio’s Victorious Amor. When that didn’t happen, I turned alternately to The School of Fountainebleau’s Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters (c. 1595), … Continue reading
Of Course, Of Course
Yesterday’s poem which I wrote tonight is called “Of a Different Color,” based on Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s 1912 painting The Bathing of the Red Horse (the picture at the link is not nearly as vibrant and startling as the print on … Continue reading
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Poem Raider
Day 10′s poem I based on an image in an ancient Greek cup attributed to Euphronios called Achilles and Patroclus. What was interesting (and fortuitous) about this postcard was that the inspiration for the poem came from an NPR report I heard yesterday … Continue reading
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Amor Vincit Omnia
I am a postcard behind again. I should be on Day 10, but yesterday I could not get a poem to work to save my life, and I just wasn’t being inspired by Caravaggio’s Victoriuos Amor (which is clearly a … Continue reading
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Things Orphean
I have a first draft of my Day 7 poem, which I finished before the delivery guy dropped off dinner for us. But even as full of Chinese food as I am, the MSG haze isn’t clouding my knowledge that … Continue reading
