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My friend's questions -
"Sometimes I sing when I'm afraid There are no words to voice my pain and so I grab my mask again... I will laugh and sing, I will dance ...
I reach for stars, I strive, I strain
- then I falter, I step back I wonder should I take the chance..." The Anwers - 'Aim high, for the stars are hidden in your soul Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.' |
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| For Jill, because sometimes good art DOES match your couch. |
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| "Her soul bared before her peers, she struggles in vain to gain composure." |
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| Flood of emotion |
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| The mask, The Three Muses |
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"Beaded, tye-dyed peace!"
(this was not all the sixties) "Hey, Hey, LBJ..." (i know it; i was there) "How many kids have you killed today?" ...
(my clothes were immaculate)
"Braided leatherwork is groovy!" (my hair was short, with bangs) "Hair peace! Flower Power!" (and i never used slang) "Make Love, Not War!" (but, I, too, believed...) "Hell, no, we wont go!" (i could change the world.) |
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| "The Silent Witness Cannot Be Cleansed of Her Guilt;\The Child's Scars Will Not Heal With Time" |
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| Hope |
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| Part of a children's book done for a literacy specialist course, the page reads: "And she didn't have to speak any words at all" |
These are lovely; I'm impressed! My favorites are the first, third, and sixth. They remind me of William Blake's illuminated books.
ReplyDeleteIt's all in the heart.
ReplyDeleteI did the first one as a junior in college for a friend who wanted to pursue drama for a living but later ended up settling and having a baby.
The other two were done while still in high school.
The one is the epitome of Shame - and for what?
And the other was to express a certain obsession that I still have somewhat with the 60's.
I wonder how difficult it might be in this age to illustrate your own poems or novel. If it isn't a children's book, I mean.
One of my novels needs a woodcut print at the head of each chapter in order to be complete, and my sisters are just the artists to do it, probably. It's their book, after all. I told them the stories years ago before they forced me to start writing them down.
You'd like the other novel better. It's got quite the distinct voice to it, and is more origonal; less like fiction.