art gallery

[Canela]

Wow! I really like this. So different, refreshing too! I wish we had
more culture poetry posted here. Looking forward to reading more of
your work.

Julie Damerell wrote:
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> Richard Beale: Thirty Years of Painting the Circle in the Square
>
> I don't understand a word,
> not one,
> until he starts talking about mandala.
> He is mispronouncing the South African president's name,
> I suppose,
> but don't mind
> because for a moment I am bright enough to be in the gallery.
> Then I figure I must be wrong;
> surely I would have heard if Mandela painted during his twenty-seven prison
> bound years.
> So I look at the pictures
> with the most intelligent expression
> I can devise.
> I see circles in squares on the canvas
> and guess that his talk about painting the circle in the square has nothing
> to do with
> that monument you have to drive around on the village's main street,
> isn't about where he painted,
> but what.
> So I stop trying to understand the words and simply feel
> what the paintings hum.
>
> Shadow upon shadow,
> mirrored treasures sought and found.
> A man seeing himself and joy in moonlit water, welcoming
> stars to join him.
> Flowers unfolding to four corners
> hosted by a southwestern moon guiding
> its followers from suffering.
> Midnight cat refusing dragonfly tea,
> trees casting for bird and sky
> home to souls lonely, loved.
>
> Words on the tip of a paintbrush,
> filling empty spaces,
> singing spirit's journey.
>
> Julie Damerell

[Julie Damerell]

[Pinky Andrexa]

A great poem with enjoyable touches of humour - as where you mention
trying to look as intelligent as possible, looking at the paintings. Then
you suddenly find an almost mystical, visionary clarity to see them,
making the last part of the poem resonate with life and beauty. I really
enjoyed this one.

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In article <01bdd3ae$1256f1a0$f4ad440c@imagine>, Julie Damerell
<jdam...@worldnet.att.net> writes

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Pinky Andrexa

[Deanna Madsen]

Julie --

This was just so interesting. The universally known leader mistaken for
symbols of the universe. I liked the beginning where you don't know what is
being said until you think you know what is being said. Loved "feel what
the paintings hum," "Flowers unfolding to four corners," "Midnight cat
refusing dragonfly tea," "Words on the tip of a paintbrush."

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