Georgia O'Keefe is mostly likely onr of my favorite artists. I love her work, stayed at Ghost Ranch(where she once lived) and walked the hills behind the ranch.
Okay, I hope this is okay to do. I got the image from http://www.artst.org/. I hope I am not violating copyright laws. Here's my poem:
1940 - The Patio - No. 1
painting by Georgia O'Keefe
From this window
Witness
Hills turning tangerine red
Each evening
From this window
Witness
Amaranth tumbling across the desert
Each evening
From this window
Witness
Wind and coyote howling at the new moon
Each evening
From this window
Witness
I wait for your return
Each evening
To see who landed in which painting, click here.
12 comments:
Oh yes! I was going to write about an O'Keeffe painting too as I LOVE her work. (I didn't have time to write anything in the end.) Your words do justice to that beautiful, colourful and warm O'Keeffe painting. Thanks.
Great choice for a painting and artist. Your poem's simplicity is a winner, the structure perfect. The ending is the best part. Good write!
Witness for some reason strikes me hard. It has a tangible longing to it.
I love O'Keefe's paintings (though hadn't seen this one before). I have been trying to write a poem about one of her pictures for years.... You've done well here.
Oh, yes, the perfect form of her painting and the perfect simplicity of the poem... just wonderful!
I really enjoyed this poem. The form was very rhythmic and I loved the word "witness" and the last stanza. Great.
I loved the way you paced this and the direction toward self at the end.
Jone, this was really lovely and how cool that you were at the ranch.
Good use of the imperative "witness". I love the opening, with the tangerine red hills. Lovely!
Jone,
O'keefe was a witness to the stark beauty of nature and captured it beautifully as you have with your words. Well done.
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Jone,
Lovely imagery. I like O'Keefe a great deal, and the southwest. Amaranth is such a nicer name than pigweed, the name I grew up using!
Hi Jone,
Thanks so much for visiting my blog this week- about NJ! So, as a fellow Oregonian, would you move there? Where in Oregon do you live?
I think we're going to make the plunge, by the way. NJ doesn't seem as bad as what we were led to believe..
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