Friday, May 30, 2008

sunflower hill...

Sunflower Hill
There
A house
A swash of butter cream & crimson
& another
Sienna & seed & fruit on the ground
& another
Up the perfume roads
Down the perfume streets
Mustards & Blues
Tall & windows & a lonely bell ringing
& one grand tree in the village square
A living mulberry
A living ghost
The flowers in the sky
Waving
In the breeze
Where is your heart? Sunflower Sky
Certainly not in the bell ringing take a look around
In the flower beds
In the flower beds
In the flower beds
Earth paints -
Huts & stucco & clay
& old things in the flower beds
Jadeite & nephrite cups & bottles
Paintings of the Impressionists
Cabochons cut of seas & glass
Pink & brown
& out the old window frames paint chipped & peeled
Sunflowers & sunflowers & sunflowers
On Sunflower Hill

sunflower in the window in Paint...


earth paints...

Earth paints -
Huts & stucco & clay
& old things in the flower beds


*a haiku taken out of a poem I'm writing and a painting I want to do...

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

away miles old watercolor...


away miles for miles davis (1926-1991)...

Away miles
The paper tunes
Sounds & songs
A story
A letter
A poem
Lifted
Above the trees & the rivers
& the purple floods
Wings of water
Spread on a hand to a star
The songs south east west
The blue hotels
Above the trees & the rivers
& the purple floods
&
Fast deer through all this
Run & play
- -
& the apple blossoms fall

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

pictures on the wall...

The
Island
In
The
Storm
My pictures on the wall
Sea ribbons boards & windowpanes
The Blues the Chartreuse songs
In my ditty bag
In my boat
In my way
To Peru
The Sweet songs
My Bourbon song
&
The Chocolate song
Shutters
Cracked concrete
Yellows
A
Windy
Striped
Towel
Sand grasses infrequent & unbending
Shadows
In
The
Time
Suns
Pink horizons
Reds grays plums
This
Place
To
Write
The island in the storm
- -
Swell your heart

Monday, May 26, 2008

for holly golightly...

Circling streets red & gold -
A muted trumpet
& a tear

Sunday, May 25, 2008

night roses old watercolors...










night roses...

Night roses,
Sky blossoms
&
Sea willows
On California Street;
Banners bells
A star the moon
Clutching
The night
The night

Friday, May 23, 2008

her blue songs old watercolor...


above...

Above
The Orange Field
Are Esperanza's flowers
Are her blue songs
&
A
Painting
Antelope
Painting
A museum panel
- -
Faces & figures circles & squares
& written in pencil there,
Fly

Thursday, May 22, 2008

running on the orange field...

Running on the Orange Field
Pinks & pinks
Esperanza
Runs
Faster
Than Charlie Parker
Faster
Than bapple bapple banana apple
Or
Diz's Night in Livin' Town
Basses
&
Bugles
Bebop & barns
& Esperanza's flowers
Above the Orange Field

barn flowers oil jean d...


Tuesday, May 20, 2008

hat jazz! photo michelle b...


hat jazz!...

Paint a verse
Of
Hat
Jazz
!
Flowing
&
Singing
The flugelhorns
&
Hats
Pianos & saxophones
"Give me a key" sonatas at ten
Sketched
&
Praying for the paints
Daubs of
Orange
Ivory & gold peach & blends
Sinatra's hat
Panama boatman golf Lester's porkpie
Phil Woods & Zack B
The poets
Of
Jazz
Hat
Jazz
!

Sunday, May 18, 2008

write a mural...

Write a mural
Of the northern seas
&
Flat
Suns
& of a small crow in a budding lilac bush,
Of sweeping gardens waiting
&
Of people
In this place
Of a tree
&
Of rain
- -
Like a great picture
In a grand hotel

Saturday, May 17, 2008

pinwheels...

pinwheels on the moon -
colors
& crackles

Friday, May 16, 2008

abeyance...

Abeyance
Abeyance
This morning the sunrise is in the clouds
& peaches are flowering in the north field
At Carmella Grove
& there is a fandango there
The dance the antelopes do
Under
Sky & sand & smell
Jump & run
In Trieste
Daisies fields & moons
Great sculptures
Running paint cottons & silks
Buddhas & birds & chrysanthemums
& smoke
& smoke
Say your song young poet
On Munro Heath
Flowers & flags
Thanatopsis a song
A cry
- -
A beautiful cry

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

chet in Paint...


boats go...

Boats go
Stars shut
The music though
Never goes - -
A friend,
The song

Monday, May 12, 2008

whistling out of grand central sharpie on newsprint...


copacabana sun...

Copacabana Sun
The train leaves on time
Waves gushing the rocky lanes
Purple gems
Ruby
Rubies
At the piano
At the sea
Copacabana Sun
The orange lily glares
Copacabana Sun
The train leaves on time
Shopping bags full
Dresses & hats chartreuse & gold
Pictures on the coach cars walls
Matisses
&
Matisses
&
Matisses
Strumming the countryside
Copacabana Sun
The train leaves on time
Whistling out of Grand Central

Sunday, May 11, 2008

& the angels there...

On the hill
A tea house floating
Sunlit diamonds on the floor
Gardens of church bells
Boats marching
&
Jazz
&
Wild horses
Running
Fastly on the poetry fields
The meadows of paint
Stippling
The green seas
& the angels there
Based upon the novel

Saturday, May 10, 2008

the piano lesson...

Thirty panes of glass in the window
Look through
To the river
To the sea
Thirty panes of glass
Grandfather's clock beside them
A mother Mallard in the flowers on a table nearby
Thirty panes of glass in the window
Skylarks Bachs & Beethovens
The sun shining through

kerouac acrylic...


not static...

Not static
Jack Kerouac
He
His song to the Buddha
A Saint's song
A dance on green fields
The planets behind the sun
The stars under the moon
A bop on the seas
Trumpets saxophones tubas
Poetries & paintings
All those hearts
Traveling
His song to the Buddha
A Saint's song
He

willow spring photo jean d...


Wednesday, May 7, 2008

newport jazz...


of...

Up the Portobello Road
To Copacabana Beach
Sonny & Zoot playing Fools Rush In
& they do;
The sun
A song
Of
The flowers in her hair
&
The music in her walk

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

swan street one-way...

Swan Street one-way
To Duke's Place
On the hill
All the willows are dressed for the dance
Plain cottons greens & blues & pinks & yellows
Running waters
Churches & steeples
Reflections & raves
One-way
On Swan Street
One-way
In the Tuesday sun - -
To Duke's Place
On the hill

swan street photo jean d...


Monday, May 5, 2008

a walk in chopin's garden...

A walk in Chopin's garden
All Blues
Rocks & flowers & gracefulness
Earth blues
Day blues night blues - -
Walking in Chopin's garden

Peace.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

saturday from the music room...

Saturday from the music room
Billie's Bounce
What a Wonderful World
Flea Markets up & down the coast
Victorian dresses red
Red parasols
For Sale!
A fine rain on the river

jeanne piaf acrylic...


Friday, May 2, 2008

another one for earth old watercolor...


another one for earth...

Earth
Trees & windows
Raindrops winddrops
Sundrops on a windowpane
The
Colors
Of
Earth
Bleeds of Matisses & a light cotton cloth,
Madras
Plunks on a piano
The
Sounds
Of
Earth
Sounds
Of
Stan Getz
A stack of multi-color crescent moons on his black necktie
A train bell rings
Smells & sights
Roses & roses
Smokestacks & sunsets
Lester Lanin & the Beverly Yacht Club
& strawberry blondes & polka dot dresses
There
Where
Where to be
During the eclipse
The ripping of the forests
The picking of the whales
Green trees gold trees pink trees dead trees
The great 1908 Tunguska event
Earth
Earth
Here< - - - - - - - - >There
?
?

Thursday, May 1, 2008

haiku #1...

High kicking drums hats
lips and eyes in Newfoundland -
The jazz ridden night

*The first haiku I wrote.

paris france acrylic...


circus...

Distances gathering greater & greater
The day
Disappearing
Down the track
A far ride in the rumble seat of the yellow coupe
The circus was in town
Joy & candy
Trumpets & jugglers
Flowerpots & song
The circus was in town
- -
The circus was in town