CIRCLES OF LIFE & LOVE

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-VIygLO4Is

SAD-EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS – JOAN BAEZ

 

My artwork is inspired by Gustav Klimt's paintings, The Tree of Life and The Kiss

 

Original artwork by me overlaid onto self-portrait photography

 

Poem inspired by …

 

I think of you in times of sorrow

I think of you in terms of Klimt

The Kiss that etched itself upon

my tender and so willing lips

 

I think of you within tomorrow

I think of you without my love

and yet I still know that you would follow

me to the ends of the earth and to Heaven above

 

I dwell with one foot firmly planted

rooted in my past mistakes

I ponder on that sad beginning

that ended suddenly for both our sakes

 

I dwell in twilight; bindweed climbing

over the wall and far away

I wonder if the never-ending

concentric circles will meet one day

 

I count the Fibonacci sequence

in nature and to help me sleep

perchance to dream that you are with me

stitch by stitch by knitted sheep

 

I watch them leap the farmer's gate

following each other blind; unrestrained

I would teach them to abandon reason

to stop themselves from the oncoming train

 

In my eyes you see the painful

side-effects of half-forgotten dreams

resurrected now and gainful

with someone else sewn into my seams

 

By my side he guides me onwards

keeps my path straight; I do not stray

not even if you were to come back now

our love, my love has faded away

 

Now Autumn falls and by the wayside

lost dreams and leaves are gathered gold

spun and woven into a different fabric

a new love now replaces the old.

 

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