Professionally I've been an artist all my life. Chiefly commercial art. In the last several years I have steered toward painting - portraits, landscape, still life, etc. Oil mostly, some watercolor. Lately I have found writing poetry to be great fun. I try to keep them non-threatening even tho the subject matter may be controversial. I am a lousy speller, but try to do my best at it, living with a dictionary.
Upon this cozy couch I sit.
It’s here the verses, I have writ
Flow forth from my creative grunting,
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Sitting, now, on my garden bench,
relaxing, resting,
no longer toiling.
Quietly sitting,
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I heard the pine trees screaming,
unmistakable, mournful and shrill.
The roar of the saws was awful,
and I prayed for the trees they’d kill.
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