She Dreams of the Sea

 

This month’s theme at creative every day is passion. I have a lot of things I’m passionate about. One of my passions is color another one is trees. So this colorful tree is my passionate offering today.

 

This month’s theme at CED  is water. If you read my blog, you know I love water!

I especially love the Ocean but I also love streams, ponds, lakes, early morning rain,

hot mugs of tea and watercolors.

 

My favorite watercolor method is "wet on wet."

Wet on wet simply means that you wet the watercolor paper before you paint.

 

This is hard if you are a perfectionist because the watercolors will have a mind of their own. But they will take you to some interesting places if you just let go.

 

I’ve learned to let go of perfectionism and now I really enjoy the happy spontaneity of wet paint on wet paper.

 

Ponderings, Poetic license, Pronouns and Fire

I like words and playing with words. I don’t like the word "it" very much. I would rather call a flower, a tree, a house, a star, "she" or "he" rather than "it." This just feels better to me, respectful. But sometimes "he" or "she" doesn’t work. I like the pronoun "their" but it has always been used as a plural pronoun. In my previous poem I used "their" with poetic license as a singular pronoun. Yesterday I looked up the word "their" (I had some free time)! It is now acceptable as a singular or plural pronoun. This makes me happy. Sometimes it’s the little things that make me happy!

Ok moving along. This month’s theme at creative every day is Fire. A few months ago I was playing around and taking photos of fire. This flame looked very feminine to me.

I named her The Feminine Flame.

 
And here are some fiery peppers growing in the garden.

June

The Month of Joy

 

Bliss is this month's theme at CED. June is also my birthday month, so I am giving myself the gift of a month of happiness. I wrote an old post about noticing at least one beautiful thing a day. So this month I am really going to notice at least one thing every day that brings me bliss. Last month’s theme at CED was intuition.

So here are things that bring me bliss.

Painting intuitive abstracts.

And the beginning of Summer gardens.

 

 

Dry Spells, Intuition and Realizations

I haven’t created much lately. This month's theme at CED is intuition so I decided to create an intuitive painting. I started with collage and then layered the collage with watercolors and watercolor crayons. During the process I realized that everyone is born with a "core essence." Likes, dislikes, desires, wishes, come and go. But certain core things will always remain with a person. I believe the core essence will always stay with one’s spirit wherever the spirit may go. Part of my core essence is a desire to create beauty. Part of my core essence is an empathy for other people, animals, plants, mother earth and the ocean.

 

What is part of your core essence?

 

 

Vicarious

 

the taste

of berries

cloudberries

blueberries

juneberries

sweet

smoky

velvet

on your tongue

not mine

 

 

this poem was inspired by a prompt for OSI

and also for this month's theme at CED  

 

I really admire writers and bloggers who can pour their hearts out and be completely open and vulnerable. I love people who can tell you all the specific details of their lives. I’m not one of those people. I would rather give whispers, hints and glimpses into my world. That’s why poetry and song writing have been such good friends to me. I have complete poetic license to be authentic while at the same time leave blank spaces to be filled in by the reader or listener. This month’s theme at creative every day is home. This is a topic near and dear to my heart. I am re-posting this poem because it comes from the deepest places of my heart and soul. What is this poem about? It’s about finally feeling at home somewhere in the world. It’s about connecting to a house and the plants, animals and land around her. It’s about deciding to leave this place because the person you love has been presented with an opportunity far away and you don’t want to stand in their way.

And it’s about learning the meaning of homesickness. 

 

A Trail Of Breadcrumbs

There are places that have an energy

that dances with your own energy

It infuses your cells, blood, soul

It is the feeling of

sienna waves on an April stream

a chorus of resurrected peepers

flour transforming into bread

It is the feeling of home

 

There are times you get to live in this place

A place where you finally fully

exhale the daggers, thorns, chains

you’ve been carrying in your heart

A place where you wrap yourself

in a cocoon of century old checkered quilts

drink steaming seas of earl grey

 

There are moments when the lilacs bloom

their fragrance becomes your breath

there are moments when a cardinal’s wings become your own

the moan of a crow becomes your language

 

There are people you love more than

April streams, earl grey and cardinal wings

there are people who smell like cookie dough and diesel

there are people you marry in a place called Hope

there are people who ask you to move away

 

and

 

you move away

 

There are looks that last forever

A black bear searches for pears

our eyes melt in an ocean of yesterdays

 

There are goodbyes you never want to have

she knew I wouldn’t be there in June

I wouldn’t be there to breathe lilacs

or translate the cries of crows

 
  I’m continuing with my previous post and painting with things we eat and drink in honor of the body theme. I'm painting once again with blackberries, coffee, lemon grass tea, wild orange tea and red wine on watercolor paper. Maybe next time I’ll try chocolate!

Food is the new paint!

 

This month’s theme at creative every day is body. So I decided to use things we eat and drink as my medium instead of paint. I used blackberries that I crushed in a mortar and pestle, strong coffee, a brew of lemon grass, a brew of wild orange tea and red wine. It was such a wonderful creative experiment. I loved all the amazing aromas as I painted. It felt so natural, so gentle, so soft and organic to paint with these substances.

 
  And in the process she emerged. 

 

Leah's theme this month is inspiration.

Inspiration comes from everywhere including dreams.

I was in the state between dreaming and waking and I heard...

What does the mirror see when I’m not there?

I thought it was an odd question but decided to answer this dreamy question.

 

The Mirror

What does the mirror see when I’m not there?

She sees

No past

No future

All is now

She sees a lilac’s soul

Blending with the life

Of a hummingbird

She sees

A butterfly’s wing blending with

The moon

Blending with the sky

Blending with the sea

What does the mirror see when I’m not there?

She sees

A Summer breeze

Melting with Autumn streams

Melting with Winter Geese

Melting with Spring bees

What does the mirror see when I’m not there?

She sees