One Number 31 (IP)

Cherry

By Philip Sidney

Thu, 12 Feb 2015
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12 comments
 

Abstract joy tachycardic rush drips and runs and holds

and holds

eyes and minds

into the snowstorm

deeper and deeper

into the dense heart of it all

into -

You’re wrong,

You’re wrong - it's abstract,

Don’t make it what it

isn’t –

           it is to me -

confront it

stand before the

only one number 31

life

all life

flashes and flickers in electric intensity

and

boom-boom-boom -

turn away, it’s too much –

see the perfect cubist vision

through the floor to ceiling frame:

walls and street and rising towers

claiming structure, straight structures

calming and lovely in their way -

but

back to this Pollock mish-mash of

strings

pulling at your heart strings

a dyspraxic dance

of everything.

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Comments

Submitted by VeraClark on

Oh, I love love love this.

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you Vera! :)

Submitted by Stephen Thom on

really enjoyed this Philip, thought it was fantastic, liked the little moments of repetition, really effective here,& the isolated '– it is to me -' as well as the beautiful 'all life/flashes and flickers in electric intensity'. also felt quite experimental in the most positive sense (to me, knowing nothing about poetry) great work

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you so much Stephen, I don't know much about poetry either, it just sort of comes out. :)

Submitted by Bee on

I loved the rush of this piece. Felt like falling - sort of Alice in Wonderlandish - speeding up as it went on and doesn't really want to finish. Really great!

Bee

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thanks Bee, I felt like I was falling into when I looked at it, it's huge! :)

Submitted by jeand on

HI Helen

I'm with the others in appreciating this work of art.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thanks Jean.

Submitted by Canonette on

Great stuff - lovely to read someone's emotional response to a painting - I've had that trained out of me!

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thanks Canonette, I was thinking about the structural aspect of the IP and I just love this painting, we go back a long way. :)

Submitted by T.V. on

Extremely powerful. Loved it!

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thanks T.V :)