Science-Nature: weather || Experience: adversity || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism
Showing posts with label tag: Experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tag: Experience. Show all posts
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Inebriation by Optimism ::: (4-5) [6-7]
Science-Nature: weather || Experience: adversity || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism
poem: For The Creative Day ::: (8-9) [10-11]
Science & Nature: challenges to species & planet, mortality || History & Culture: generations, technology, abundance || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism, pessimism
poem text:
Yes,
we are passionate about our project.
We are passionate not because we presume
that we,
finally,
are the ones to save our imperfect species and threatened planet,
but because it is our turn.
painting: Warm Refuge ::: poem: With Cold Numbing Your Cheeks ::: (12-13) [14-15]
Science-Nature: winter weather || Experience: warmth, privacy in public || Community: city || Painting Inspired by Poem || Medium: acrylic wash on paper
poem text:
With cold numbing your cheeks
and hood hiding your face,
come through the wind and door to the empty chair.
Then a view,
facing street,
heated stove,
rippled heat.
painting: Snowlight ::: poem: Let Beautiful Winter, poem: My Common Stove ::: (16-17) [18-19]
Science-Nature: Season-winter || History & Culture: wealth in the work of others || Experience: observation-contemplation || Community: family-neighbor-stranger || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wishful, prayerful, hopeful || Poem (Let B...) Inspired by Painting || Existing Painting & Poem (My Common ...) reflect each other || Medium: acrylic on canvas
Poems text:
Let beautiful winter spiral up
from each autumn's gold
to uncoil gladly
into same earthen chalice
from which dutiful summer must spring.
....
My stove knows how to burn its firewood,
how to respond
to me who knows so little of what it knows,
to me who does not know how to make a stove.
painting: Almost Spring in Redfeather ::: poem: Otherwise Meadow ::: (18-19) [20-21]
Science-Nature: alpine meadow || Experience: observation || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: contemplation || Poem Inspired by Painting || Medium: pastel
poem text:
Clump of grass
and others scattered
strong
dormant
brown
painting: Seasoned Optimism ::: (20-21) [22-23]
Experience: resilience || Community: alone in the world || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: hope || Medium: acrylic on paperboard
painting: Aubergine ::: poem: Gardens of Pleasant Regret ::: (22-23) [24-25]
poem text:
I wish to see the garden,
the gardens—the tenth of an acre around my house—
poem: I Make No Note of Faces ::: (24-25) [26-27]
Experience: observation-contemplation, a walk
poem text:
Out the door into the sun,
I give my plants their inspection,
pull a weed,
admire a bloom,
ponder our next collaboration,
walk west
painting: Sun on Their Faces (detail) ::: poem: Turn to Sun ::: (32-33) [34-35]
Science-Nature: earth-spin-orbit, Buckminster Fuller, Helio-photo-tropism || History & Culture: rural towns & fields || Experience: long drive || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wistful conjecture || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other || Medium: acrylic on canvas
poem text:
This early morning
he passes from Mississippi headwater
out of woodland and wetland
across the Red River onto North Dakota
—rolling plain of North Dakota—
painting: Postcard to My Children ::: poem: Shadow of Our Photographer ::: (36-37) [38-39]
Experience: as visitor tourist || Community among strangers || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wistful conjecture || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other || Medium: watercolor plein air
poem text:
How many people have come here
once in one lifetime?
from other continents and this,
from down the road a bit,
poem: Fortuitous Stop in McCook ::: (42-43) [44-45]
poem text:
We drive easton western high plain,
through hill-full prairie,
under afternoon sun,
into the Nebraska town of McCook.
paintings: Carnivore at Sleep & Birds on a Wire ::: poem: Two Men Chanced Together in Their Flight :::(48-49) [50-51]
poem text
touching shoulders, going southward on a flight.
There this one man told the birdman his long story,
seeking confirmation that in truth what happened
. . . . . . . . . . is what he saw.
painting: Flip Flops ::: poem: November 5: Below the Ankles ::: (50-51) [52-53]
History & Culture: styles-fads, groups-cliques, differences || Experience: a walk || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: humor || Painting Inspired by Poem || Medium: acrylic wash on paper
poem text:
November Five.Alive in a long, warm autumn.
A walk across the college campus.
Feelings of being over-dressed and over-aged.
A day to look around.
A walk across the college campus.
Feelings of being over-dressed and over-aged.
A day to look around.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
painting: Leaf ::: poem: Leaf on My Floor ::: (52-53) [54-55]
Science & Nature: lifecycle of leaf, autumnal coloring || Experience: chance observation || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: nuisance or beauty, guilt and appreciation
poem text:
inside my house,
in through my door,
you, done with your work,
unwanted leaf,
get out!
out to my fire to burn!
poem: Day of Success ::: (54-55) [56-57]
An Experience: success, help ,,,, Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism, humility
poem text:
Yesterday,
our day that started well,
ended better,
brought success
not perfection
but good enough to compensate for past delay.
poem: Looks Forward and Backward ::: (56-57) [58-59]
Science & Nature: flood ,,,, Experience: a walk ,,,, Thought-Feeling-Spirit: a good day
poem text:
He walked,
crossed a bridge (rebuilt since falling to the flood)
turned down-creek
to that house of that friend who left today,
carried loaded boxes from basement to truck,
and worked till all were gone.
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