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Pictured, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story” – First of Series
A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story? 😉
Second in series, “Rosetta” is now also available.
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Accelerating Into the Curve
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dVerse Poets Pub Prompt : Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic Writing –
hosted by Claudia Schoenfeld
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claudia, traveling about europe (where she lives) happened on an impressionist exhibit and was inspired for the “meeting the bar” prompt featured this week
besides the absolutely stunning monet featured at the top of the page, which i believe i saw once, or a variation of it, in a converted museum-house in paris, she wrote this, which is thought was perfectly on :
But details weren’t their focus anyway, it was the mood of a moment, a feeling, fleeting, moving. Monet once said “For me a landscape does not exist in itself, it changes every moment in appearance, but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life.”
it hard enough doing approximate justice visually to the impressionist legacy, much less verbally with words, but to feel inspired to do one’s own “take” on our own personal moments, here and now in our own unique times, is justification enough i believe 😉
if you can, stop by and see the full prompt, and even more enticing, the myriad poetic responses one can enjoy, as a reader a writer a painter a lover and simply curious 😉
best wishes everyone!
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Accelerating Into the Curve
when i was twelve
pressing my bike
round and down
the curve from
my house
i
felt the pebbles
nudge the back
tire
but i held on
barely
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when i was twenty
gunning the gas
little by little
feeling the
four
wheels under me spin-
turning the corners
i
felt the shift of the weight
of the car
pulling out from under
me
but i held on
slowly
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when i was nearly thirty
my young son beside
me
inside
the great american scream
machine
the
roller coaster bursting
a dip a rise and a turn
back down
the mountain of
track
we both held on
dearly
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and now having past
sixty
reaching the
time
when i can settle and do
what i’d like
ha ha
i
feel myself
leaning a shoulder into the
wind
glancing back at what went by
squeezing my time
into stop-watch
stop-action
moments
my life
my heart my hands
smiling
accelerating into the last curve
fully
© 2012 felipe adan lerma
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namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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