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Mystery and melancholoy of a street by de Chirico
Melancholia
The dark side –
veiled from where you run
in the sun.
Cloistered,
by black bile – my choice,
berates the external voice.
Sanctuary!
Black dog tethered,
blind, chaos weathered –
confused
by shadow. Oddly,
I recognise your joy.
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Nice take on the emotional ambivalence of the picture Good to see rhymes and simple stanzas that reflect the starkness of the art work
thank you John – currently I am working on the principle that simple is good.
love how balance between darkness and light here sally…and great closure..Oddly,
I recognise your joy..stays with me..
wow…such a dark beginning to joy in the end…your words play well against his styling of painting…as with the sparseness of your language…well spun…
Wonderful…I love the ending & the ‘Black dog tethered blind’ …fabulous! I really enjoyed this, and it will stay with me a while…
It is odd! This picture is such a bundle of contradictions and questions.
I find the use of referencing the shadowing in the image so clever. Lovely write ~ Rose
The two things that came to my mind when I saw the picture: Holocaust and Akko Prison, two separate but connected entities. Of course, it can have been about neither but an interesting resonance.
Ps. I cant see what im typing as the website has gone doolally so apologies for typos!
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so the shadows are really deep…it certainly has a lasting impression. Do you think any joy was visible from Acco or by the holocaust victims? Maybe just a shadow, like the girl with the hoop.