Painting. Acrylic on canvas.
Carnivale
Kick up your heels,
Put on your mask;
Sweet pleasure's now
Your greatest task,
For soon enough
Each man's compelled
To shed his tawdry finery
And say farewell
To flesh
And all the rich feasts,
Whose fragrances will still assail
The world
When we are in our Lenten season.
And quiet prevails,
And passion must concede to reason,
For gray's both on us
And around
To dim
The color and the sound
Of that sweet and garish past.
So know that age
Will come too fast
And fade the days
And plastic masks,
And Carnivale.
Will end at last.
Faith Goble
Gander Press Review, (Fall and Winter, 2008)
MysticMoon14 ♥still catching up♥, Hortonfogg, Dixon Marshall, waspy2006, and 17 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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Gioser_Chivas 49 months ago | reply
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Rodrigo de Chile [deleted] 49 months ago | reply
This awesome picture was seen in Flickr Balloon Award
Gioser_Chivas 49 months ago | reply
This awesome picture was seen in Flickr Balloon Award
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Jen's Photography 48 months ago | reply
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dw ork 46 months ago | reply
Wow!!! that's awesome
वाह! यह कमाल है
Art in the Family 45 months ago | reply
TeodoraC 34 months ago | reply
Exquisite piece of art.
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Pat McDonald 33 months ago | reply
Faith, this is absorbing and beguiling …. your choice of colour is inspired … As I type I have the painting large size, on black in a separate window … the colours and forms great a swirl of mystery and emotion …
I reread your poem and the words complement the painting perfectly. The grey of lent is approaching but we do all have another, more colourful side, "Sweet pleasure's now" ….
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garlandcannon 26 months ago | reply
I saw this beautiful image in the Pure Imagination group.
enrique1959 - 25 months ago | reply
Bonito trabajo, saludos
travelhaha 24 months ago | reply
This is a nice shot,I like your work^^
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travelhaha 24 months ago | reply
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Pat McDonald 17 months ago | reply
The colour here is outstanding Faith, so is the poem. Lent is approaching …
Zoom Lens 13 months ago | reply
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