Thursday, November 29, 2007

a windy walk in Paint...


for the 29th, 9 haiku...

The sea
walks on Johnson Street -
The wind said

Silhouettes -
Poetry
& paper

The house near the harbor -
Paintings
on every wall

A traveling soul -
Strumming
the heart

Turquoise
& tourmaline -
Sky & sea

Flying heart -
M
A
G
I
C

The yellow cup -
The tea
sighs over

She emerged
chartreuse -
Wings on a cloud

Heartscape -
Violins & rides
on the mountain sea

pumpkin hill photo jean d...


Wednesday, November 28, 2007

pumpkin hill...

On Pumpkin Hill -
The leaves
mingle with the wind

*Thanks, Gina, for helping your grandfather with this one.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

true boats acrylic...


true boats...

True boats
She sits on the veranda watching them
Drinking coffee
Riches
In French vanilla
- -
True boats
The breeze sugars her drink
&
The breeze brings true boats home

Monday, November 26, 2007

the new tree acrylic...


the new tree...

Pond blue
Sky blue
The blue in the field
Air
Water
Flight
The new tree

modigliani dove acrylic kimberly...


this rain...

it is in this rain
you wish for
a Modigliani dove

Sunday, November 25, 2007

papa acrylic...


this tree...

This tree
Perfect seas
Duckbilled hat
Cocked
Tipped
Shaded eyes
Tented beard
Tinted chin
Perfect seas
- -
Is that a gnu?
A tarpon?
Or
A big peach rose?
No no
Perfect seas
It's Papa
- - - - This tree this morning

kerouac angel...

Kerouac angel -
Three kinds of lilies; Oriental, Asiatic & LA hybrid
in her hair

blue watercolor...


in blue...

In the night breezes
And sea light
Windows ajar
Fresh salts
And spray
On his face
There
His restlessness
There
Envisioned
- - Snow
- - - - In blue

piano day...

The pond came in through the windows on the sun
A decoy looks at me
The other; away
The Mount Vernon clock clicks along with the Monticello
,
& the piano plays
- - Parallel 4ths
- - - - & a bunch of Monk

Saturday, November 24, 2007

daisy field acrylic...


where is the soul...

Where is the soul
- - Now ?
I think it is in the paint the music the poetry -
- - - - It is in the beginning of everything
Mountains seas trees berries streams green grasses
Not
Not
In destruction!
Of towers bellies greeds eyes full gods gold
- - - - & & False!
& & - - - - Destruction!
But
But
The soul is
- - Always !
In the paint the music the poetry it is I think
- - - - Beginning in the eye of the child
& We Better Shall Know That

Friday, November 23, 2007

getz watercolor...


saxophone moon...

Big saxophone moon
All the colours
- - The tablecloths & the candles
At Charlie's Gone By
Ah!
Play jazz!
In the east in the west
At the Shine Cafe
- - Play jazz!
Paint the saxophone moon
- - You are meant to do
You are meant to do

duet in Paint...


yes...

On Take Five
the Paul Desmond solo is beautiful & complicated & difficult -
Yes.

for kimberly...

A flowing red dress
dancing on an ocean breeze -
Oh my! Party Girl!

Thursday, November 22, 2007

this house oil jean d...


this house...

My favorite picture by the sea
- - This house
On a hill
- - A piano in a room
Opening into another room
& the foyer
Rows of books
Lace cloths & fine glass
Stacks of long playing records
Ellington
Sammy Kaye
- - There
A piano player a lyricist & Anita O'Day
Singing
New songs old - - standards ah!
Ah!
To a sitting group in the rooms tasting
Crackers & tea slaw cold cuts & jam
Whiskey & gin
They
Singers
Dancers
Sailors
Poets Warriors
Fishermen
Princesses Painters & Kings
Mingling
& a saxophone player or two
Here
Playwrights too & storytellers & &... &
You my favorite picture by the sea
- - This house

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

the day before thanksgiving...

Cloudy birds clamoring for the bread I threw out -
Cars whizzing by
the day before Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

trumpet blue sketch...


milo hewes ca. 1956...

In the field of jazz he was young,
But "Down Beat" billed him as news,
For he produced a progressive style,
Along with a swingin' Blues.

From Storyville to Basin Street,
From Basin Street to Condon's
The cry of all musicians
Was Jazz, Jazz, Jazz*

To Condon's he was invited,
With Basie he played his horn,
The kind of music they put forth,
Kept them going till early morn.

With the very best in Jazz,
All night he did play.
With Ellington, Armstrong, and Krupa,
The stand began to sway.

In the reviews the next day he was great,
So said the critics of Blues.
They named him Jazzman of the Year
And predicted Newport for Milo Hewes,

With Mulligan and Davis
To Newport he did fly.
The music was hot,
The weather was warm that evening in July.

The stage lights were on at Freebody Park,
Mr. Kenton was host.
As Miles looked off into space,
Cigarettes were shining like ghosts.

Hewes was next.
With poise he did step forward.
Little did he know
That his time was borrowed.

Suddenly pain showed on his face,
His fans gasped in fear.
There on the stand
Died Milo Hewes, Jazzman of the Year

*(chorus optional after each stanza).

Monday, November 19, 2007

the boats in the moon in Paint... 2


ribbons bubbles...

Ribbons bubbles salt & so
rock
the boats in the moon

Sunday, November 18, 2007

brisk photo jean d...


leaves on the ground...

In the dried flowers
& sunny puddles -
Paper birds play

Saturday, November 17, 2007

on lyric hill...

On Lyric Hill
Streetlamps buzz
The wind dances a rhumba
By the sea
Hoagy Carmichael Ole Buttermilk Sky
Cole Porter Easy to Love
By the sea
She
A lily in her hair
A lyric on her smile
I need not worry about the storm
I am learning to sail...

*I want to thank artist & friend Kimberly Ashby for letting me borrow the last 2 lines (italics) - they are perfect for Lyric Hill...

egypt store photo jean d...


egypt store 4 haiku...

Egypt country store -
In the window
popcorn under a lamp

Egypt country store -
Gargoyles plants & leaves
on the stoop

Egypt country store -
Cookies jars & boiled eggs
in a barrel

Egypt country store -
Hot chocolate
it's still rock and roll to me

old watercolor 13...


the bamboo forest...

Big poem
Big poets
Charlie Parker & Thelonious Monk
Ben
Webster
Ben
Webster
Ferlinghetti
Oh!
High tea!
High noon!
At the Roseland Ballroom
Buddha!
& smiles!
In the butter light
Hopes & swing
At the Glen Island Casino - at the hop
Peaceful willows
Peaceful geese
The pond sun is low
In the bamboo forest
&
Corita's dragons snort fire
Now
Just as they did in 1967
- -
Oh!
Oh!
In the bamboo forest

Friday, November 16, 2007

overflowing...

The sun came down
& the leaves -
Overflowing the meadow

a new tree in Paint...


a new tree... 2

I love birds,
Olga said
He did not respond directly
But said,
I love trees
- -
Here,
A
New
Tree

willow sees photo jean d...


willow sees...

Willow sees -
- - The end of the pond color

Thursday, November 15, 2007

the boats in the moon acrylic...


concluding maybe...

Marching
to harbors in the night -
The boats in the moon

Black seas -
Rolling
the boats in the moon

*concluding the boats in the moon series. maybe.

capt. edward owen acrylic...


storm dance...

Buoys
All of the colors of the flowers
In a storm dance
On the side of the sea shed in the moon's night
&
A hundred miniature windmills
In the breeze
In the breath of the Siren's song
- -
'Plug your ears, mates!' the captain growled

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

the boats in the moon in Paint... 1


the tides...

The tides -
Picasso
Mailer
Ali
&
- - The boats in the moon

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

rainy morning...

Rainwater
flattening leaves & berries in the street -
A splendid jackson pollock

Monday, November 12, 2007

modigliani dove in Paint...


modigliani dove...

The red night
Eyes lowered looking
A light
A tiny star
On her lip
Her red lip
Painted card of thanks
For the red night
& modigliani dove
I hold

the blue stucco blues...

like a kerouac blues...

The
Blue stucco
Wall
In the mirror
The ceiling fan claps
A row of orange & purple bottles
Scraps of yellow-lined paper
Everywhere
&
Whispers
In the ether
Hazy day
Moon & sun
Hazy night
In the ether
& Papa's picture on the wall
Solemn
The blue stucco blues

in jazz! in Paint...


some art haiku...

Bombs of white -
Sunny shadows play
on Genesee Mountain

Grasses
& paintbrushes & spirits -
On the front porch

Red lilies
Beat down
On the harbor
On the dock
- - The palette is extensive

Face
Figure
Shoulders
- - The color wheel

Quiller's
mountains & dawns -
Drip

A shooting gallery
of color & shape boat & brine -
Newport Beach

The palette is a star -
- - - - Bright

In a darkened room
stares & pensiveness -
A gladiola in a chair a scrapple in a drape

Words in the work
Drip
- -
In the air
&
On small canvases
You're there!
- -
In
Jazz!

Sunday, November 11, 2007

lois's porch oil jean d...


veterans' day...

A porch & a flag
in the magic light -
Click!

for anita o'day (1919-2006)...

Feathers
dancing -
The song is home

never alone...

Never alone
There
In the piano room
There
The boats in the moon
- -
There
On
The
Palette
There
On
The
Pen
There
Come couplets in color:
- - - - Orange reds & golds
- - - - - - - - in the blue green pond
Oh!
A walk in the Sunday Sea over the Sunday Bridge
Oh!
A bird appears
A flume
Stippling all of the stipples of the garden
&
From a hill where the fog is,
A lily flower speaks
Of roses daisies trees & wavy grasses
Of one million colors
Of one million words
Of one million Novembers
Here
In the piano room
Here
The boats in the moon
Here
Never alone
Never alone

tumult acrylic...


Saturday, November 10, 2007

mailer dead...

Sound a trumpet
Jazzy & somber
O'er the P'town dunes
The sun has set
At Race Point, a great sunset of the world
Tumult
Tumult
Calm calm
Tempestuous
Tempestuous
Poignant poignant
A naked mouth
A naked lip
The fight
Against
Dark breezes
His & Ours
&
There
The
Taste
Of
Light
- -
Oh Mystery Death,
The foggy pianos play
- -
Mailer dead

jeanne in Paint...


amedeo modigliani...

A summer wine
A small cake
& tea
(Picasso painted over a Modigliani canvas)
,
Modigliani's mouth
Twisted
A hand pours & butters
The
Death
Masque
&
There
On the wall on the floor
A summer wine
A dancing man
A woman
A small cake
& tea
,
Pablo
Picasso
A breath spake,
"Modigliani."

thinking of van gogh...

Sunflowers
& angels -
- - Painsong* eyes

*word borrowed from a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem.

Friday, November 9, 2007

paris france acrylic...


she makes alive...

She makes alive
A
Pot
Of
Dried
Flowers

beowulf sketch...


beowulf of jazz...

Oh!
Oh! Jazz!
San Francisco The Shine Cafe
New Orleans Bay Yards
NYC The Smokehouse
Oh! Jazz!
Blinding alto horn
Saxophone skedaddle man
Skedaddle!
Beowulf
Beowulf of Jazz,
Man
Greg Jerry Gerry
Frank
& Arnie
Bird
Bird
The baddest cats,
Man
Buddha
Bebop
Lotus Blossoms
Fell
Fall
Float
Kiss
The song
Ringing
Sung
In the Warrior's ear
Leap a
Bebop
Do re
Me
Fa so la ti
Dough
Leavened baked
&
Packed beside
The quiver mutes mics & music sheets
For the journey jazz
Chet Clifford
Beowulf
Buddha
Bebop
Just one of those things
D'Ambrosio
Krall
Flew to the moon
Fly to the moon
Lonliness
On Ocean Drive
The beaches
The shores
Stones & sticks
Boodle de bop
Buddha
Bebop
Peace
In that world
The Isle of Fin
Alto saxophone raised
Pointed
At peace
Basses & drums rattled
Piano prattled
A haunting melody
The Chan Cho clash!
Sssssssssssssss...
Fire and water!
And then we thought
And then we saw
And then we heard
Wistfully
Then
Then
A seagull peeked over the el
And sang
A pretty girl
Is...
The princess in town
To follow
Bow & arrow
Gifting
Of onion breads
And jazz!
Oh! Jazz!
Rattles
Prattles
Clashes
Buddha
Bebop
Beowulf & The Lady Day
Lady
Booooda de bebop

february 2007...

Thursday, November 8, 2007

sand rock blue photo jean d...


by the willow...

The walk to the water -
By the willow
in the sand rock blue

orange sails acrylic...


a poet's song...

Gold
Is
A meadowtouch
Poetry & picture
&
Breath
& smell
At the waterreach
Near
The flowerbell
Where the sea talks to us
- -
A poet's song

fall sweep photo jean d...


chopin's garden watercolor...


chopin's garden 6 haiku...

Inexorable -
The music the journey
the flower

Chopin's garden -
Mozarts
& mandalas

Chopin's garden
a novella -
A breath

Chopin's garden -
Sprinkling
circles

Chopin's garden -
Opus
Rain

In Chopin's garden -
Stucco & peaches
antelopes & fast horses

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

capt. in Paint...


capt. greg sparrow...

Hi notes
Hi hats
- Ride
The winds & the waves
The transit
- Of the sea
The transom
- Of the horn
Hidden
The secret treasure
There hidden
A million notes
And the keys
Mother of Pearl C, G, A
Not a secret now
- Dug up
By
The Captain
The Superman
The Sweetman
The sails trimmed - stays
The quartet
Beboppers & pirates
Arrrrrrgh!
Chevrons & jolly rogers
Flyin' home
Ridin' high
- The winds & the waves

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

a new tree... 1

Wide brimmed hats
sun & sap green sand -
A new tree

bari man watercolor...


a jazz waltz...

A jazz waltz
In backyards
In hammocks
In washtubs
Puffs of air on a canvas sky
Whales breach
Boats beat
Gulls dive
,
A jazz waltz

november willow...

November willow -
Danse
on the light of the moon

Monday, November 5, 2007

jack kerouac acrylic...


the boatman's song...

(Daydreams For Kerouac)

Kerouac
Jack plaid shirt
- -
The boatman's cap
- -
Working man
Singing man
Swinging man
Jazz man Magic Jack
- - padatter padat... pat pat
Scattered poems let them fly let them fly
Firestacks curl seaboats heel
Roads oceans
Voyages into Piano Jazz
Attack piano
!
The Fabulous Rafaels & Yaskos
Did Caruso really live in a tree
?
The Tenor of Thomaston
Name carved on a wall an underwall
In the old opry house
Pianos & Tenors
Scattered poems on the fly on the fly
&
Lulee sang,
'Coffee morning
The window curtain
Gauzy blue
&
Her
& the smokelight
Gauzy
Blue'
- -
Kerouac
Jack plaid shirt
- -
The boatman's cap
- -
- - padatter padat... pat pat
- ... pat pat
- -
- ... pat pat
- -
- pat!

hagler sketch...


hagler watercolor... 2


hagler watercolor... 1


hagler acrylic ca. 1976...


5 after storm haiku...

Sea light
wind light -
Morning on the bay

Gulls yaw -
- - defiantly

On Kathryn's roof
crows plume -
The wind is dying

Bare branches
quaver -
The beach plums play

Petunias
blossom -
On the yellow sun

the morning acrylic...


Sunday, November 4, 2007

lady storm...

Lady Storm -
Harsh harsh
- - before the morning

Friday, November 2, 2007

i remember nick...

His dust whirls
- In the Snake River
- In Idaho
There are other dusts there,
Too
Maybe?
- -
Hemingway
Maybe?
Wolves
Maybe?
- -
I remember Nick
I remember him

a riverplace watercolor...


another jacksketch...


jacksketch...


my friend jack...

Jackie Stevens
in life danced with angels
then he did
- - his horn
& good heart
with him

excerpt the artist life...

Peter the sketcher put art in that show in 1958 in Marion, Massachusetts, the annual show (the first annual of one). Bob the piano player noodles in the background, "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Bye Bye Blackbird," and "Bye Bye Blackbird." Jean on drums filling. And she breaks into and belts out her favorite Steve Allen song (he wrote 10,000 songs you know): 'You're walkin' along the street / Or you're at a party / Or else you're alone and then you suddenly dig / You're lookin' in some one's eyes / You suddenly realize / That this could be the start of something big.' And Bob is smoking and drinking and playing "Bye Bye Blackbird." 'I'll arrive late tonight / Blackbird, bye bye.' And Kerouac Jack and The Artiste du Jazz did arrive late, very late. They brought with them the chess painter heavy painter in oils and she brought two of her canvases called "Chess" and "Chess." They were displayed along with the sketches of Peter the sketcher, and Bob played, and Jean drummed and sang. And Kerouac and du Jazz read their poetry, puffing in unison, and the sun came up on Buzzards Bay. All quite heavy.
Footnote: Peter the sketcher had nineteen sketches in that show in 1958; one sketch is said to still exist but nobody knows where it is... ...

Thursday, November 1, 2007

a willow...

A willow's sigh,
maple's too
- - The pond is quiet

a red leaf photo jean d...


a red leaf...

Red leaves crinkle
a red leaf flies -
Fall's landing