IMPRESSION SUNRISE, painting by EAGAN BADEEU, Maldives

LINK: http://www.keykay.blogspot.com SCOPE   Look out to sea: a couple of swimmers battling the waves. I see a liner Sending out flares, A rubber dinghy Dolphin shaped Caught in nets About to sink Out to sea.   The trick is to turn The telescope, An inverted Periscope, Into the waters To see A mermaid Struggling, […]

FLORES MELHOR, painting by CRISTIANE CAMPOS, Brazil

LINK: http://orebate-cristianecampos.blogspot.com/ http://cristianecampos.arteblog.com.br/ http://www.cristianecampos.com.br/ FIORI  MATURI   Ho visualizzato il silenzio ombra fresca della notte d’autunno.   Fiori maturi inebriano i muri d’argilla sbriciolati dal vento che viene dal mare.   Altalena di vita e d’acqua sulla corolla della margherita.   Acrostico fatuo di questo giorno che sfiora l’alba.   MARIA FIORENZA VERDE FLOWERS IN […]

RIVERNET, painting by DORA KRISTIN, Reykjavik, Iceland

LINK:  http://www.artbreak.com/dorakr RIVER   The stillness of the waterfall is contained within. If rushing waters hide quiet thoughts, can quiet thoughts disguise a mind employed in true activity ?   (…Nirvana) One begetting the other, eternally.     AERONWY  THOMAS

THE MAGICIAN, painting by GLORIA FABEL, Norway

  LINK: http://www.artbreak.com/gloria1fabel THE SORCERER   He                               He                               He walks                           runs                             eyes me nonchalantly                 to                                up and down my way                        the next                        unexpectledly picks off                      one                              inflicts someone                      on                                vanishing trick on my right                 the list                         wham                          mustn’t                         and job done bam                             waste                           ticks off he’s gone                     time                             my name crunch                         those                            before scrunch                        […]

YOU COME IN, BUT I AM NO LONGER HERE, poem by ALEXANDR CHULKOV, Czech Republic/Ukraine

LINK: http://chulkov.net78.net/                            *   *   *         Ты придёшь, а меня уже нет.         Я – частица, энергия, свет.         И дорога ко мне через мрак         не объедешь, который никак.         И тропинка ко мне через зло.       […]

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW, painting by SHARON EBERT, Fiji

  LINK:  http://www.sharonscapes.com   SUMMER   Summer sky blue Sea maritime green Meet at the horizon   AERONWY THOMAS

CLEARING, painting by HELENA CARVALHO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

LINK:  http://helenacarvalhoarte.blogspot.com/ WELL   From the bottom Of the well  I hear cries from above.   I see faces Peering Over the edge.   Voices call  A rope descends. Catch it if you can.   The shadows Down here Claim me.   Feet in water, Something Swims by.   If I crouch here Quietly They’ll […]

TREE, painting by STELLA VELKA, Slovakia

LINK: http://www.stellavelka.webnode.sk THE   COLOUR   TREE     Colours, shapes The tree on its hill Embraces life   AERONWY  THOMAS

DANSUL FOCULUI, painting by ALESSANDRIU BOGDAN, Rumania

  LINK: http://artflock.com/artist/BogdanAlessandriu/ BONFIRE   Before it caught fire changed into light a great pyramid  a bonfire with you on the stake bound and masked   before you became light sparks shooting upwards sprinkling ashes at our feet we the observers lit the fireworks ready for a celebration   the crackling of the woodpile the […]

PIANO, painting by GALYA DIDUR (DGAL), ISRAEL

  LINK:      http://www.artbreak.com/dgal DRUM   I played the tin whistle for him played the flute played the violin played the bassoon the organ the saxophone the trumpet and the trombone. He looked my way And seeing me Looked away again. He only answers to the drum…ter tum.                                                                       AERONWY  THOMAS