VISION/ Illusion/ delusion (your call)

    Like a Maxfield Parrish painting
                 superimposing
       an Ansel Adams photograph

                      earthy
                      ethereal

                   glowing soft
                 sweet serenity

                   so striking!
                     pangs...
                 waves of pangs
        pierce my stubborn sorrows

                  suddenly... joy!
                     startling joy!
                   emancipating
                       jubilating
           " jumping Jehosaphat" joy!

                      heart, soul,
                     spirit mind
                         affixed

                          I SEE!

                      I see that... I...
                    ... that all....
                 are always already
                       forever alive

— brittle light, Jun 14, 2010

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Region, Country: upstate New York USA, USA

Critiques

Kailashana

15 years 12 months ago

Wonderful. I have many

Wonderful. I have many poems with references to Maxfield Parrish. Love his work! And who can not sigh inside AA photos AND your extraordinary poem--nature and nature of existence. Thank you. ~A p.s. Sp: ethereal, forever.... and last names uncaps? ok, you're a poet, you can do anything. ;-) "Even if I knew the world were to end tomorrow, I would plant an olive tree today."-- Francis of Assisi

brittle light

15 years 12 months ago

firstly

thank you for an extraordinarily gracious comment, and an extra thanks for pointing out the error of my (typing/texting) ways. I am new here, and not yet comfortable commenting/critiquing. still trying to figure the ethos of this place. not to worry, when I start feeling comfortable no one will be able to shut me up. thank you again, AL