Gulley Jimson and I used to be best friends, even though he is made-up. Wayward human and color appreciator,he is a main character in Joyce Cary's novel trilogy,one of my favorites. Irish Joyce Cary studied to be a painter, served in the British military and civil service in West Africa (where I grew up). William Blake, intoxicating painting, a complete devotion to color and the creative passion, and a disregard for pennies and those without appetites - how could I not acknowledge these roots?
Showing posts with label landscapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscapes. Show all posts
Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
A Series of Landscapes
Every character has his or her own mind. Yet the threads of time-after-time are interwoven within us as the beads on a necklace, the lace on a hem that rings the edge of a throat full of life and a landscape of flesh, the biggest organ we have, beautiful living beings.
Rush! The man inside the boy rushes on,
urging
The blood-rush of every urge
And surge. What can this moment mean,
the next, my life?
The hurtling speed, even then
The sensation of my feet pounding
Pavement, breathing labored
With the satisfaction then of stamina
Growing, endurance building
Into a bank I can depend on
In the strength
Of its cellular investment,
Time after time,
And on the verge of
Stock exchange.
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I wish, I wish, I want..
He said in his dreams, a slight swing before dreamland
Actually, a verge, a lip of a line he liked to flirt
But had never crossed.
The line he crossed then was one he’d regret,
Until he learned that regrets are for fools who never learn.
Regrets are drips of rain that sometimes burrow,
Deep, but when roots are ready, soil and bloom
Will change and grow, become a smile to those who light
Upon seeing life, its burst through, into
Visible form.
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