I am the clown by Dandelion de La Rue

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I am the clown

On the red bicycle

Riding through the foggy streets

Blaring my little horn

Laughing wildly, madly

at all the

irrelevancies

And absurdities.

And the reverent quests

For self-importance.

The clown can also

watch the dance,

The struts and strides

And smiling well dressed

Charms of those who

Claim to know Reality.

And when it gets too Serious

He can jump up shouting,

His red nose on his face

And orange hair and big white mouth

Permanently smiling

And he can shout

But it’s absurd! It’s all just

So absurd!

And ride his bicycle away.

Barbara Spring Red and Gold Sassafras Poem

red and gold sassafras poem

red and gold sassafras poem

Red and gold sassafras

………..by Barbara Spring

Red and gold sassafras

Slender green tasseled grass

And the lake waves say

“too soon, too soon.”

White mares’ tails streak blue skies

sea gulls slide and slip in air

trembling shadows on the sand

                 whisper  but I can hear

 “too soon, too soon”.


 

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Glenn Merchant Selected Paintings 2014


Art by Glenn Merchant. Music by David Michael Jackson
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“I am an artist that values the power of an image to move me both visually and emotionally.”

Born in Chicago, Illinois
Received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting at Middle Tennessee State University – MTSU , 1985.
Has lived and painted in Tennessee, Virginia, Maine and Georgia.

I find Glenn’s images to be emotionally uplifting. His colors are invigorating rather than morose. He doesn’t seem to set out to be “pretty” so much as to represent emotion with subject and color. Color? He makes other’s seem dark while searching for the same sense of penetrating the conscious with the subliminal attachment to color.

That’s a fancy way of saying that he cheers me up. I delight in the blues, greens and striking contrasts I see in simplicity.

Currently lives and works from his studio in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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