***Juan Fontanive***
"The artist’s flapping hummingbirds and rushing fish are sculptural animations, or perhaps automata: machine-powered facsimiles of life. Automata were, famously, among the principal triggers of uncanny experience for Freud"
Wormhole a blind portal
front matter flapping Maple, your logic lost
your branches tattooed with India ink, your spine weak
your knowledge once possessed me
I must leaf-
© Ellen Wilson
Artist Polly Becker~visit her website here.
Kindle App on
pink filter illuminates chain
Daisy's thoughts-loves me, loves me knot
cheesecloth memories tucked in wisps of gold
spotlight on -your delicate dance
© Ellen Wilson
Edna St. Vincent Millay at Vassar College – 1914. Photographed by Arnold Genthe.
Light grows in fingerprints
red locks lean into day's blue haze
weathered faces watch sea's romance
until Vincent dances with pounded rhyme
in a New World.
Glowing freckles of day
linger in sun kissed sea
cheered by many to perform
.....fragile twist....tumble
dismount wins the Gold.
© Ellen Wilson
Glowing freckles of day
linger in sun kissed sea
cheered by many to perform
.....fragile twist....tumble
dismount wins the Gold.
© Ellen Wilson
day's dream catcher swirls
orange ribbons bleeding into blue
black n' white thoughts-not allowed
fingerprints plant sacred dance
respect blooms
orange ribbons bleeding into blue
black n' white thoughts-not allowed
fingerprints plant sacred dance
respect blooms
Invisible string gathers
heart's pearls, red roses and tea
gems in hindsight's portal
steeped daily in
closed eye dreams
© Ellen Wilson
This is for The Sunday Challenge with Kerry and Dr. Nakamura.
Comments
Watching those birds change so rapidly almost makes my head hurt.
nice, the one that begins, "Light grows in fingerprints" is my fav....very nice series of tanka ella
Thank you!
Grace-Thank you! I thought of my grandmother drinking Red Rose tea and offering her pearls of wisdom :D
Bjorn-Thank you for walking with me :D
Brian-Hi, yes this poet Edna St. Vincent Millay grew up not far from me. As a teen, I use to climb a mountain near her home and one of her poems is at the top.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15416 I think of her penning poems, where I stood :D
Thank you~
Marian-Thank you! I loved yours~ :D
Kerry-Thank you for sharing Dr. Nakamura with us~ What an intriguing journey, so far! Thank you~
Alex-Thank you! I know-kinda clever though-a magical art form~
Loredana-Your verse graced the dance of mind and body~
I have to try again!
K
Mama Zen-Thank you! I did think of you, after I wrote my poem for Hannah's prompt-I used bones ;D
Nicole-Thank you :D I'll stop by~
Michael-Thank you-this means a lot~
Colette-Merci beaucoup ;D
Can't wait to see your photo in print!
Hannah-Thank you~ I thought it would be fun to have movement :D You are kind~
EJ-I am fascinated! I have several feeders and love their visits~ I saw one once with white on it-magical! Oh, I will have to look up CA and see what kinds you have-how wonderful~ Maybe the hummingbird is your totem?!
http://www.spiritanimal.info/hummingbird-spirit-animal/
Thank you~
Hi Dezzy! Thank you~