Across the Mind

Across the Mind

People walk by
Strangers with strange things happening.
I see
colors out the windows, apparitions float by.
I see
children, who are they?
I hear
Steady low music plays a tune
that is scrabbled about in my brain cells.
Hurry
Get the slide, look at it from the microscope.
I see
fibrous tissues cells, red and pinks
I hear
Shadow talk, what happens to the brain cells when they die.
O my
Do you run away, do you stay?
Where is my top hat?
I have lost it or is there a top hat?
I am afraid
Forgetting, knowing you are forgetting.
Do you go before you are gone?
The shadows press against my forehead.
I am afraid.
I am afraid
Of the Fade

 

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Dark Days & The Black Sea

Dark Days & The Black Sea

Ping-pong

Love is gone

A madman

The President King

is in the White House

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

The Russian Spy Ship is

lurking 30 miles out from

The coast of Connecticut

There is a drive by Su-24 attack

Jets buzzing, taunting the

US Porter American warship

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

Everyone needs burner phones

A gun in every closet

To stop this instability

That haunts us.  

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

Congressional hearings

Yet to be heard,

We are in mission critical

To keep our freedoms

We need all people to

speak out and tell the backstory

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

Congress needs to revolt

against the President King

Fundamentally wrong

Constant flushing himself up

Unfit to be in the office

 

The president is lying, lying

The president is lying, lying

 

And we are crying

 

 

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Dark Angel

Dark Angel

 

She crosses the lines

And thin boundaries

In the effort to disguise

The spirited dust

Behind her eyes

That so blinded

Just for a time, held

An embrace of

the darkening sky

Held deep,

no definition of clouds

Clear air blows in the

Feelings, stirring up

She breathes deeply

Sucking the air right out

of your chest

when she

looks at you,

choking, the corruption

Of the tissues

the self
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January 2017 Day 2 of 31 days of poems

January 2017 Day 2 of 31 days of poems

Grit

The ether formed,
her lips and mouth
|small words|
a whisper
that enlightened
just few who
listened for a mere
second in time

What happened in her life
to cause this isolation
From love, dreams

Or is it grit
that caused the chasm?
Leaning into it that chasm
taking small sips from
the pool of water
|Drowning in the silence|

Dark chasm
Musing on silences while
The chalk paint scratched
Fingers dug the ground finding
Crystals shining

She died quietly without
fanfare
or any persons sitting
around her bed
in compassion and caring.

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LadyO©
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Dewy Dreams

Dewy Dreams

Day 1, January 2017

Dewy Dreams

Aquamarine drips
Her face dazzling as the
Sweet songbird sings;

The sun peeks out
Just at the horizon
Glorious winsome shades

Only temporary
Baby Moon Face
My moonchild

Reaches up wholly to
Skylight and shrines
She is a Holy desire
That Comes from within

A thin silk string held by
celestial being
hanging there
Nightly light glowing
Just glowing

 

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Controversy and Art….

Controversy and Art….

What makes you tick when you work… I have been listening to a lot of music of late… I know when I stir feelings, I will have a surge of electricity I need to create something deep.  I ask again, what makes you tick before you write, make art, use a flame of a torch to melt metal?

What pushes you forward, what feelings will strip you to your core to create your art, love, hate, controversy…WHAT?  What pushed major artists, hopelessness, hurt, I try to feel deeply what the human condition is, even the ugly, to feel the feelings and allow them to pass through my being, push them though, then the magic happens.

 

Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

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Work in Progress…. just a peek into what is happening

 

Those that know me and have known me, know that I pretty much am an empath… I love crystals, rocks, painting, collage art, music and poetry.  I have been known to write a little myself.  I am a creature who loves, and loves deeply.

I have heartaches, losses and regret, but most of all I have hope for the human condition.

I hope most of all.

 

Coming soon to my Etsy Site  will be some small art projects.  I do hope you will join me there.

 

with Love

and most of all Hope

~musingsilence ~∞ © The Year of Thought 2016
Ladyo
ne bottalico

Rihanna – We Found Love ft. Calvin Harris

 

 

Screaming – Poem

Screaming – Poem

Emotions come crawling,

storming,

slithering up the side of her head

No mooring

Mercury in retrograde

Sliding backwards

Falling, falling

The oak leaves were red

and grand, yet the

Survivors breath misting

Trailing with the apologies

came only from a frozen mouth

 

The year of 2016, May 12.

ne bottalico♥©

ladyO€

~musingsilence~∞

 

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Rihanna – What Now (Official)

All Souls Day

All Souls Day

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I am working on some Art Boxes for the Winter Holidays.   I just happened to start working on them near Halloween, Day of the dead, Día de Muertos and All souls day… do you practice or celebrate one or all of them?  I am an Anglican / Episcopalian by belief but also believe many things as I age.

All Souls Day Anglicans view All Souls’ Day as an extension of the observance of All Saints’ Day and it serves to “remember those who have died”, in connection with the theological doctrines of the resurrection of the body and the Communion of Saints.[7][8 (Wiki)

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My box is a collection of things I love, I love Frida and what she represented to other women and how she told her own truth.  She lived her own truth too, politically, as an artist, as a lover, as a person who lived in severe pain throughout her life.  I honor her life.

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Back View

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Today, as I make art I celebrate all the lives that came before me…

xoxox

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Dia de los muertos or Day of the dead:

Most people celebrate Day of the Dead out of love and commitment to their loved ones (Wiki)

Frida Kahlo

Image of Kahlo for Day of the Deadat the Museo Frida Kahlo

“Coyoacán día de muertos 08” by Guillerminargp – Own work.

“I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can’t do anything to change events anyway.”
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

reminiscing……

reminiscing……

 

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I went to a meeting yesterday considering a place on a panel of other artists, it was quite educational and enjoyable.   I plan on volunteering to jury other artists applying to sell their wares at the 23rd Street ArtistsMarket, in Austin, TX.  The Market has been around since the 1970s. It has much historical and artistic value to the citizens, and local artists.  I am thrilled to be a part of this!  More soon

love

nike / musing silence

 

Read my work & see some art in the stolen poem Autumn/Spring 2012

Saint Theresa Altar

Saint Theresa Altar

A handmade Altar Box made by me using an image of Saint Theresa.  I created this altar using paints, papers, a small box, vintage beads for feet of the box, rhinestones, rhinestone tape, gloss, and lots of love.  She would be perfect as a gift or for your personal shrine area.

 

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/198636196/sister-theresa-wonder-altar-small-art?ref=pr_shop