“Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
Dag Hammarskjold
The Forgiveness. 20×30 in. 51×76 cm. Acrylic on canvas by Clinock.
The Forgiveness
Story Time
We all love listening to stories
Especially if the story is ours
And this one must be mine
Because I called it here
From my shadowy insides
And asked if it would appear for me
It came in joy and pain and laughter
but I can’t explain the who-ness
Or the why or even how or when
And even if I could the words would
Trip like clowns into the muddy wonder
Where the children cry, Again, Again, Again!
Dear People, as I’ve mentioned before I’m lost and confused with this new ‘Block’ editor on WP. I’ve tried to get it but I can’t and am now simply frustrated.
I wanted this poem to be in two stanzas of six lines each but it refuses to break using Return.
Now I can’t even find Tags and Categories so this post won’t have them. I think I will be leaving WP soon if I can’t resolve this.
Story Time. 17×14 in. Acrylic on paper. Painting and poem by Clinock.
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Three
“Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road. There is always another one walking beside you.” / T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land.
Three. 20×30 in. 50×76 cm. Acrylic on canvas. By Clinock.
Figure in a Room
Eggplants,
Reflections,
Flowers.
It’s not much to offer in return.
I escape into the accommodating mist,
embarrassed and too far lost in other landscapes
to embrace the yes or the no.
Priestess
Priestess, (Entering the Stillness). 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper.
Painting and Haiku by Clinock
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
October 2019.
Accept mysteries
Open the stillness inside
Be one with your dreams
Market Day
Market Day. 17×14 in. 43×46 cm. Acrylic on paper.
Painting and Haiku by Clinock
Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writer’s Residency. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
October 2019.
walking the market
admiring flowers and fish
my love is busy
art rat cafe 