beginning acrylic...

chopin shines...

Beginning
the garden -
Chopin shines on it

april is near...

3 o' clock in the morning
A winter song
Through the curtain ruffling
Touch
Flower
Puff
Oh my
- -
Making softly a lyric
Making it true

angels in Paint...

nights & dawns...

A thousand nights
& dawns -
& angels are in

chet watercolor...

the big poem...

The moon
In the cathedral glass
The jazz killers
The lady
The lady
Holiday
Lady Day
&
Anitah! Anitah!
O'Day
Mingus
Monk
&
Clapton
"yes you look wonderful tonight"
Getz
Chet
&
Joel
"sing us a song you're the piano man sing us a song tonight"
Smoked glasses
Hunched
At the cathedral glass
The windows
Inside the windows
Outside the trees leafless
In a winter tint
Balloons
Red
Chartreuse
Silver
Orange blue & yellow
The
Notes
Of
The song
Anchored
In a pond of purple moons
In the winter breath
"seaside by the beautiful sea"
The sound
The church music
Great through the Vespers hall
On the harbor
On
The
Moonlit wall
Amen
The hopes the wants the needs
The swaying fields
& coral flowers
Of the poets
Of
Joyfully
The
Flat Gauguin canvas
Amen
Ah!
The flights of the Muse
A gauzy wing
See through the angel hair
A curl of a hush
Her
Beautiful
Face
Oh!
Angel Muse
The imperative peace
Of
Brush & pen
Oh!
Angel Muse
Lift the fog
& fan the good heart of the moon
Struggling at her mooring
Speaking to
The bright black night
Wishing for
The color of winter's whisper & evergreen
&
A luncheon on the grass
Of jams & cakes & orange cream sodas

for oscar...

He was 82.
He lived.
- -
Heart
Full of songs riffs & quotes
Winter spring summer the autumn
Sunflowers seashells sand & snow
Ten thousand melodies ten thousand harmonies
The light hand dances in our soul
"Ladies & gentlemen, from Canada
A young man his first time in New York City,
Oscar Peterson.
He plays the piano."
- - He played the piano
"Maharajah of the keyboard," Duke called him
- -
December 23, 2007
He was 82.
He died.
- - His song
For jazz
- - His song
For us
- - Oscar Peterson lives.

merry merry christmas!...

It is...
all about jazz
&
It is...
a time for grace
a
merry merry Christmas!

pelican moon acrylic...

a pelican moon...

The boat before the night -
Wandering
a pelican moon

midwinter watercolor...

the winter solstice...

The winter solstice
;
- - A flower of snow & ice

for the muse...

Wavy grasses
Peaches berry chocolate
Some pasta
&
A lyric
A smile a beat
&
Splendor
&
Wonder
In the crashing ocean sea
Of...
Of
Her song

purple mesa watercolor...

the high mesa...

The high mesa
Solitary & purple
Like the snow lakes
Ruffling there
.
There
The antelope
breathes
A Mandarin heaven
Walking
The palette of the moon
&
The she
&
The songs
&
The crayon shadows
Dream softly,
Sing softly,
Paint softly the dream

jim plunkett acrylic ca. 1972...

thelonious monk in Paint...

holy...

Sacrosanct
The jazz pianos
In the rose room
In front of the rose windows
- - The orange beat,
Holy

harlequin...

Her painted face -
A spree
of snow & song & sunrise

pearl overcoats...

The she antelope
sang -
Of pearl overcoats

ballads II warhol-like...

a little painting...

A misty blue gray granite slate
a tableau -
A waltz of words

baskets of orange...

Baskets of orange -
Mornings
& flowers & peaches

(December 10, 2007)

sealed & orange...

A specialty envelope
made of ripped hand-made paper -
Sealed & orange & on the wall

(December 9, 2007)

pebbles & paint...

Moon & snow
& a willow path -
Pebbles & paint

ballads acrylic...

colors of the moon...

A song played
;
I ask
Are the colors of the moon strong?
Is she the ballads
- - of... of...
?
I ask the morning
Every morning
At dawn

where?...

This night this sky
pink & orange -
Where is the moon?