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Walk into the mind of Picasso and Van Gogh and enjoy.
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None of us write alone without carrying on our back the whisperings of others. In case you are wondering, Ekphrastic poetry is an excellent way to pay renewed attention to the masters and their paintings or work of art. Many of us evenuse their art as inspiration, or "emotional fuel." Ekphrastic poetry is a hard word to spell but it makes an excellent conversation between two pieces of art. I enjoy using paintings to inspire my poetry. Poetically, speaking, I think most poets are like honey bees hungrily searching through a grand buffet of past literature and art for that speck of pollen we can turn into our own honey.
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I believe to be a poet, you need to know when to listen and when not, as well as begin every day with a moment of silence, during the day listen to the children who are always on, we can learn as much from them as they us,
Poets need to befriend isolated thinkers, to enjoy their gift of gab, to recognize universal truths, listen to their intuitions, and welcome the muses that are their best fans,
Poets need to give credence to the "unseen" and to know that there is no coincidence, and be appreciative we enjoy free will,
Poets need to ride the winds with glee that blow through their minds, and to write those thoughts down before someone else does or before their forgotten all together.
Poets need to learn to appreciate the sun setting, a bird call, a quiet garden, a clear sky, and a creative effort with an unambiguous pen.
Conversing with the Masters
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Picasso's abstract paintings fill my head with fascinating narratives, he ran the females in his pack with wounds,
he should have felt and dealt with when he was young, but then painted them with feelings of mastery and omnipotence,
his favorite model was a pretty ballerina named Olga, his girl in the mirror,
I hear her begging to be space between Picasso's ears, I can see her elongated limbs and bulging breasts
reaching out for him,
pride guides his hands around her 22 inch waist, I see him loving his women separately but tasting them all as one,
turning his backside to each after a cataclysmic orgasm, he painted torn pieces of himself in blues, reds and yellows.
Girl Playing the Tambourine
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Bazooka, I see Picasso's done it again, painting Olga dancing and playing the Tambourine, a collage of many sensual parts, a mystery to explore,
she's dancing to an unheard melody in Picasso's head, it's magical getting to know her in a cubic sense, even though she looks kind of odd to us,
Picasso thinks she's perfectly mapped, a massive tragedy of parts, recalling them with an insanity he never-ever sought,
he could do nothing more or less, then to reconstruct his women as he knew best.
Picasso's Women
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I caught the glimpse and gleam of Picasso's women...in my mirror, each invading my soul
with curiosity, sadness and fear,
all of us like stubborn toddlers, sitting in highchairs, waiting to be fed life, a little excited, a little not,
we traveled with dark glasses of misconception and misery, our faces wet with sweat and tears, our egos plump,
each of us moving from one world to another, our hands cutting the air into magic masks of unforeseen circumstances we hide behind,
each of us craving and loathing the pain of the perpetual wounds of living and loving.
Les Demoiselles
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Picasso gathered five sisters of
prostitution into a collage of
strategic cubes of memento mori,
the death rattle of jilted lovers,
painting them as savages,
with angular and disjointed
bodies, some hiding behind masks,
while his hand-eye coordination
painted them all into with ambiguous
affection.
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"Joyce White has aligned herself with spiritual principles that govern the workings of SCULPTING THE HEART WITH ART THERAPY. She uses these principles in the most conscious and creative way for healing."[Sage Sweetwater - Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist]
SCULPTING THE HEART WITH ART THERAPY is in totality, about the possibility of renewing life. It is a profound writing of a sense of release conveyed through poetry, art and clay juxtaposed with flapping wings of freedom.
What highly validates this book for me, is the kind of creative expansiveness Joyce White gives of the soul. It embraces goodness and wellness through the healing acts of creativity, contiguous with God and dream. It is a writing which has concentrated form, and to the restless, makes contact with faith anchored in transcendent spirit. It embraces philosophy of dualities, balancing light and dark through poetry and prayer, existence and essence. I appreciate Joyce White's work. She gives all that she has and then some. Joyce opens her heart and shares her personal life, things about her family, death and dying, loving and praying, creating and imaging. She talks of Jung as if he were right beside her guiding her positive energy and assisting her dreams, Joyce says "I'd like to think this book helped others to begin living their own divine purpose." This book has done just that. It's a book of picture symbols, words, and sculptures which absorb our subconscious and represent thought, and if read and used correctly, includes vast information from all of the six senses; sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and intuition. Joyce White has self-awareness to know specifically the areas of creativity, and what a full life is for her. She shows how the creative process is an external form of whatever we imagine internally.
The benefits of this book are many. I highly recommend SCULPTING THE HEART WITH ART THERAPY. Inspiring! The mental, physical, and spiritual idea to right living! Joyce White, you have won my respect.
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"...That this book is about Surviving Depression with Art Therapy as the subtitle suggests is really secondary to the inspiration it affords. Liberally sprinkled with four-color images of artwork and photography that will make you smile, this book is about being happy."
A Marvelous Look at the Power of Art to Relieve the Frustration and Tension Caused by an Imperfect World, August 26, 2008
"I am an ordinary woman living in an extraordinary, imperfect world...This phrase sets a poignant beginning to a poignant masterpiece full of humor, honesty and reflection."
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NOTE FROM WINGED:
Hi there. One of the most powerful ways to get what you want is by using the success of others as INSPIRATION...or what some call, "EMOTIONAL FUEL"...It is never too late to be what you were
meant to be.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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