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Amazing Ekphrasis by Poet Francis Don Daniels on my painting Sirens Lure

July 24th, 2010

 Amazing Ekphrasis by Poet Francis Don Daniels on my painting  Sirens Lure

This is one of my more recent paintings. Poet Francis Don Daniels was inspired by it and wrote following Ekphrasis. (An Ekphrasis or ecphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic description of a visual work of art).

A link to Donny's website can be found at the bottom of the page.

Artwork is available at http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/-amazing-ekphrasis-by-poet-francis-don-daniels-on-my-painting-sirens-lure.html




Pictures winged

in three dimensions

before my eyes,

dartling

one and then the next

a panorama of existence

soaked

with emotions

I could not explain.

~

A glimpse

first here

then there,

a familiar likeness

while others

too odd and strange.

~

Was this yet

another conjure

of the siren,

or the quandry

of modern man?

~

The pictures flashed on

as if to tell

the story

of the hourglass-

a cinematic journey

of whom and where

I'd been.

~

Places vague and unknown,

persons with foreign tongues;

Universes amongst the stars,

worlds cast somewhere beyond;

A man devoted to the Arts,

A man who's waging wars;

A man of indelible strength,

A man of pitiless flaws.

~

Before my eyes

plunged

impinging pain

of the lapses of life.

Before my eyes

poured

the meanness

I'd become.

~

And her face

the tears

gently trickling

in tiny beads

down her cheeks.

The sadness

in her crystal eyes

that now

pangs

my tortured heart.

~

No matter how hard

I tried, I

could not stop

the onslaught of pictures

revealing

in blatant color

my frailties, deceit

and lies.

Until

at last,

I reconciled

the upheavel

of my transgressions.

~

A dichotomy

as clear as

duty and omission,

as clear as

the artist

and the thief.

To realize my pain

and suffering

came not from her resentment,

but from my own demise.

~

That my wounded cries

were of my own affliction,

the hourglass

my empty sands.

~

Woman

of infinite beauty.

~~

Poem by Francis Don Daniels
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Mistress of the Glade - New Painting

July 24th, 2010

Mistress of the Glade - New Painting

This new painting was inspired by many trips to Florida's Everglades and other wetlands. It is available as cards, posters and prints at http://fineartamerica.com/featured/mistress-of-the-glade-susi-galloway.html

















In Nature's pieces still I see
Some error that might mended be;
Something my wish could still remove,
Alter or add; but my fair love
Was fram'd by hands far more divine,
For she hath every beauteous line:
Yet I had been far happier,
Had Nature, that made me, made her.
Then likeness might (that love creates)
Have made her love what now she hates;
Yet I confess I cannot spare
From her just shape the smallest hair;
Nor need I beg from all the store
Of heaven for her one beauty more.
She hath too much divinity for me:
You gods, teach her some more humanity.

~ A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew

Indepence Day Street Banners

July 19th, 2010

Indepence Day Street Banners

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln

3 of these images are hanging in downtown Clearwater as street banners in Celebration of Indepence Day. They will be available as prints, posters and cards soon.

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