Art poems that I have written

TB HARLEM by Alice Neel

Images
images of an alice neel painting tb harlem

a youthful victim of it's ravaging

come to me while i listen to the tb sheets song by van morrison

the flash is unmistakably vividin my brain's eye

i can feel the young man's suffering

with a collapsed bandaged lung

concaved rib cage deformed

by medical intrusive intervention

i can only imagine the pain

that he is feeling and think of him

as eternally clinging to a life scarred and wasted

and I can almost smell the decaying

of his once youthful flesh

caught in the act by paintbrush verity

on a striking canvas repose

which no spectator can ever deny

is the work of a true genius

and a masterpiece of life

Painting Dance
painting dance

and refrains untapped

i see the colors

of the strokes and the movement

inside the darkness of my mind

i apply the coup de grace

that marred the purity of the rawness on my canvas

with a first trace of paint

all in the name of symbolism

behind the shield of artistry

for a fleeting momen

ti grasp the true meaning

behind the unknown forces that give me guidance

through each step

but alas in a flash

it is gone

and i have

forgotten

Museum Sleep

inside the ornate frame

such beauty rests in a museum sleep

frozen in silence waiting

for cracks to formin the plaster wall

to breathe again

to regain life

in ancient fibers of morrow's lore

and furthermore the pallid beauty

wearing those woven golden reddish braids

longs for the creator's touch

the lover's embrace

the passionate kiss

Suzanne Delorme