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@HeystekJ OK. Here's some Black Forest cake for you, or maybe you would prefer cherry pie? Or lemon, or whatever the last one is? All by Patrick Kluga. (sorry Joost, I couldn't resist! 🤣😂)
@GabeBlessing It's my "thank you!" for all the wonderful poetry. Glad you like Royo, I've been like "wow!" ever since I discovered him. The portraits made me think of Clarissa Pinkola Estés' book "Women who Run With The Wolves" and of 'the untamed' in women.
This is how love is
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.
#thread 4/4
Suzy Kassem, "Rise Up and Salute the Sun"
Rosie Sanders #watercolor
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
#thread 3/4
#watercolor by Rosie Sanders
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
#thread 2/4
🖌 Romulo Royo, "Flowers and Thorns"
"The figures of the past go cloaked.
They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go."
Wallace Stevens, Poesie Abrutie
Ben Aronson 🖌
72nd St. Subway Station, NYC; Newbury Street in Snow Boston
"The language of roses shifts under our feet. It blows in and out like the wind. It carries the fragrance of the flower and then it's gone. It's how we learn to speak about something that is disappearing as we say its name."
(Helen Humphreys)
Sergei Kurbatov
Art by Elena Miron @mironele
*Rainy Routine (Venice)
*An illustration based on an episode of the Russian series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes *Untitled
Art by Agnes Geets @aquaagnes
"What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure." (Henri Matisse)
🖌 #portraits