Paintings of Life is the result of changes, challenges and growth. This collection of poems contains four parts, each entitled with a latin term: Natura - Tempus - Mortem (1) - Emovere - Hominem - Mortem (2).
Paintings of Life is the result of changes, challenges and growth. This collection of poems contains four parts, each entitled with a latin term: Natura - Tempus - Mortem (1) - Emovere - Hominem - Mortem (2). If one asks the author why, she simply answers: “Why not?” Claire Perez Ekman has found special brushes that she has bent to her will in order to give the reader a taste of her heart. Seemingly fragile at times, do not be fooled good reader, for this is only the tip of the iceberg. If you are willing, one verse after another, she will take you by the hand and show you the world as she sees it... the wonders that stun her, but also the ugliness that have her rant
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Watercolours
Standing on an unstable pontoon
She has stopped… Out of time,
She is part of an ageless whole.
How old is she?
She does not know anymore…
How long has she been here?
She does not know anymore…
Outside her body, impassive,
In these frozen watercolours
Where everything is still, yet, goes so fast,
Suddenly becomes flesh again,
And stares at the horizon…
Calm and empty sea,
What is she waiting for?
Nothing…
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David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
