Thursday, December 3, 2009

The gift of art


Painting 5-23-08

I want to paint a tapestry
Plaid with lunar-young vines waving
Disorderly fingers too high.

I want to paint a pottery
Of brass-burnished grasses
Zen-raked by hands with plows.

I want to paint an etching
feathered with cloud curls,
to tickle your eyes.

I want to paint a dance
undulating silhouettes
of hills against the sky.

I want to paint a poem
with the spark of a solitaire
pinning the early night.

I want to paint for you an image
which catches the heart
in your unrestrained sigh.



To those who wish to hear my poems read aloud, gulp,
in 2-3 days my poems Melody Evolution and this poem, Painting, will be on a podcast of our local public radio station, KCBX.org, 90.1 FM in San Luis Obispo California, achives of Ears on Art, 12-2-09. I have done this twice now, and am having so much fun. I hope you can have the live poetry reading experience this way with me, without having to fly here.... LIVE is always better: music, theater, poetry ...personally.
Love my poetry family,
Dianne

5 comments:

  1. Congrats. Very well deserved. Shame I can't get it.

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  2. Seeing your poem in print, after hearing you read it on the radio, is a wonderful experience. Do you know if we have any poetry readings in the county this month, or if all cancelled due to the holidays?

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  3. The spirit of this is most affecting and contagious.

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  4. i love this one...you do paint, with your words...

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