Friday 55 Georgia O'Keefe

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Georgia O’Keefe

painted flowers.

As a teenager,
I saw:

mists of salmon pearls

blushing
to scarlet,

around powdered

grey petals

pulling out

lapis irises.

Concentric layers

of receding facets,

opening outward

and tunneling inward.

Shadows draping,

light spacing

the forms embracing:

motion,

vibration,

repeated

impressions.

Now, I so often recognize

Georgia O’Keefe

painted more than flowers.

This is a poem in 55 words.  If you want to participate on Fridays, post your short story or poem in exactly 55 words, and let G-Man know, HERE

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What is it about flowers in Spring, or on significant days, or for a funeral, or for gifts between lovers?  We know the effects of chocolate historically and biochemically.  So.... does anyone know why flowers are so intoxicating, .....really?

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“Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.
If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
...Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't."
-Georgia O'Keeffe quotes.

-California Lupin, photo by JT Giese, 2010