And the Livin’ Is Easy
Summer Matins
first light finds its way
through my translucent eyelids
via catbird’s throat
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Notes about poem and art:
• I wrote “Summer” sixteen years ago when I committed myself to composing what turned out to be about fifteen haiku as part of a self-directed project to focus on what was right in front of me through short daily poems. I bumped into those poems a few days ago filed in a folder entitled “now see here.”
• It’s summertime here and, as DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin wrote in the lyrics to a well-known song from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, the livin’ is easy. In that spirit, I added a second color to the underpainting of the above work in progress many many lazy days after putting the first color in place.
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9 responses to “And The Livin’ Is Easy”
Thanks for your feedback on the concision in my haiku and for your shared joy at the chance to greet the morning with birdsong b/f we’re even totally aware that we’re in a new day : )
Thanks also for feedback on my keeping the softness and textures in my added color; it actually took some fussing and manipulating. I don’t know what attributes of different brush and different paint contributed to the difference in putting this new color in place, but it wasn’t free and easy.
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you’ve always seen the world with a poet’s eyes! That explains the magical splendidness of your art, too! Xo
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Sheila, thanks for reflecting back energy from my writing and painting. I gain welcome insights from your observations.
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