A quickie for the NaPoWriMo prompt referring to an art form other than writing. The woman in the August Macke painting looks uncannily familiar.
If I could paint
a painter I’d be
but these things are decided
when fingers are still stubby tools
for grubbing in the dirt after earthworms and beetles,
forced to shape themselves to uncompromising ivory keys
to grip skinny slippery pencils
and form symbols of another’s creation.
If I could
I would
but paint is a river
an ocean too glorious and uncontrollable
too close to the rolling weaving
water and wind-swept tableau
of another’s creation.
Words instead tumble and trickle
salamanders from a volcanic pit
to be captured and shaped
before they scuttle back into their secret caves
pinned to a page where they glow
immortalised.
That’s the theory anyway.
I admire how you write so easily. This is beautifully expressed, has a nice flow to it 🙂
Thank you. I’m pleased you like it. I write all the time so it ought to be flowing naturally by now 🙂
I agree, this has a nice flow, and I agree with the thoughts, too. (I got the word gene, not the visual gene.)
That is funny about the painting resembling someone you know. Maybe a past life. 🙂
I envy those who can do more than one creative thing, like Kerfe and Claudia.
The painting could be me, believe it or not 🙂
I believe it. 🙂
🙂
I read your line about the painting and looked straight over to your gravatar photo. Even from that tiny image I could see the connection.. how special!
August Macke and Franz Marc are among my favourite painters. Founders of Der Blaue Rieter group and both killed in WWI. I’m pleased that August Macke painted me in a previous existence 🙂
It’s all of a piece and flows together like your words and the wonderful art you find to pair it with. (K)
For a while I stopped looking for paintings to illustrate poems, took too much time, and I was beginning to think it was all a waste of time anyway. I know what I’m looking for now, and poetry has become more important to me so let’s let rip with the artwork 🙂
Have you thought about painting salamanders? 😉
I don’t think they like having their image stolen 🙂