"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

Monday, May 24, 2010

a tea party pow #4


Trees are twisted with no leaves

The sky is a greyish blue

The mood is dark there is concrete

Too much blue eye shadow

Maybe or something else and barbwire

I cannot quite place

I am missing you where are your shoes

Where are you can you

Put them back on

Let’s have a tea party

Crumpets and an earl grey

20 comments:

  1. This is wonderful, Pamela .. dark and unsettling. My favorite lines: "I am missing you where are your shoes Where are you can you Put them back on." That extra pair of shoes under the table is a so mysterious!

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  2. Surreal lines for a surreal picture, Pamela!

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  3. Marianne
    Thanks for the comment.
    It is mysterious!
    Pamela

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  4. Derrick thanks for that!
    Pamela

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  5. Phew, Nicely, perhaps if this tea doesn't make your eyes turn blue, it makes you invisible!

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  6. Interesting thing, interpretation. I saw the shoes as filled, just detached. You saw them as empty, needing to be refilled. Love the way you set the scene:

    Trees are twisted with no leaves
    The sky is a greyish blue
    The mood is dark there is concrete

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  7. There is a concrete feel to this.A surreal dream quality. I can hear echos in this poem.
    I prefer Twinings English Breakfast with my
    crumpets with honey.Just thought I 'd let you know in case I ever pop over.

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  8. Could be Andy.
    you never know!
    Thanks
    Pamela

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  9. Paul
    Thanks and interpretation is different with everyone.
    Pamela

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  10. Rall
    Thanks and this painting certainly helped. Very interesting I would love to know what Charles was thinking of when he painted this.
    I will take note on the tea and of course crumpets have to have honey!
    Cheers
    Pamela

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  11. I liked the last couplet in this.


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  12. I like the disoriented feeling of your poem, it fits well with the painting. Crumpets do sound nice.

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  13. Thanks for the comment Linda.
    Pamela

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  14. Francis
    The painting has a very disorienting feeling and I would love some crumpets right now.
    Pamela

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  15. I like the way you've delved into the imagination of a lost little girl.

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  16. Thanks Stan.
    This painting is very interesting and invokes many thoughts.
    Pamela

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  17. sipping my cooling Earl Grey it occurs to me that I've never had a crumpet.
    Super setting! There is an imprisoned feel to the starkness. Wintery. "or something else...I cannot place"
    You get a lot into some spare lines, gal.

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  18. Thanks Barb!
    you should look up a recipe for crumpets online. I think you would enjoy them. BTW no one has ever called me gal I kind of like it ;)
    Pamela

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  19. Pamela, liked there were many things here that seemed un-knowable until the end, which I interpret as love and optimism - it's been dark and bad, but let's freshen up and have tea, and won't it be better?

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  20. JDM
    Thanks and as far as love well not so sure but always optimistic.
    Pamela

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