Sorrow. Reverie. Quell.$800
Sorrow. Reverie. Quell
© 2021 By Duane Kirby Jensen,
19 1/4 x 24 ink, watercolor, and pen on watercolor paper
Here is the writing on the painting.
Sorrow
Fall brings silence to songs of summer,
spring flowers have become the mulch
in graves that offer solace
with the promise of rebirth, but not Resurrection.
A few graves await the stragglers,
sentinels who cling to days,
heads bowed in arthritic remembrance,
unwilling to surrender to time,
holding no trust in a future they will inhabit.
Reverie
The result of a transforming kiss -- sun to seed
soaked in the dark wetness of earth and sky,
Each rose blooms into a trace-like-state,
to ponder the chemistry which is life.
Each bloom nourishing the dreams of lovers
and the words of poets.
Sharing pollen with bees,
who convey light to journeys end,
gooey golden honey.
Quell
Twilight brings brilliant colors to foliage void of green,
whose youthful leaves once glistened in sunlight,
shimmied in the breeze, and swayed with the wind
while drinking in glucose, as if, everyday was Mardi Gras.
But now, crinkled with the fragility of age,
each weary leaf surrenders to time,
relinquishes its claim to the silver light,
consoled by a life lived wildly.
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