A Dainty Flower In The Rib Cage! Poem by nimal dunuhinga

A Dainty Flower In The Rib Cage!



A dainty flower in the rib cage!

I turn the chapters of H.W.Janson's
History of Art-Book.
Man in the red turban
self portrait of Jan Van Eyck
Rogier Van Der Weyden's
Descent from the cross
Luca Della Robbia's
Singing Angels
The garden of love
Painted by Peter Paul Rubens
Boy playing a flute
Judith Leyster in black & white
Rembrandt's Night Watch
Diego Velazques
nicely drawn 'The water carrier of Seville'.
I jumped to Realism and Impressionism
Goustave Cobert, Edmond Manet
Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir
Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne
Georges Stuart, Vincent Van Gogh
and Paul Gaugin etc.,
O The old Guitarist of Pablo Picasso's
dragged me to my recent pastel drawing
(drawn on a Saturday in late December)
'A dainty flower in the rib cage'
with this short poem;
'Short white candle burns
between my rickety ribs
and beloved darns
the torn heart with a silky thread.'

for Brian McLaughlin with gratitude!


nimal

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kalubovila East, Sri Lanka
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