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Before I knew the words to describe a rainbow, I could mix the colors of heaven, of mountains; of Arizona in the spring. Each morning in darkness before the molten Phoenix sun would crest the parched desert, Papa would sneak out the door quiet as a whisper to paint this house [...] ©2011 by Deborah Scott Lightfoot
The ballerina twirls With such silent joy The sun has come out to play To warm the wisps of hair Left loose to fall Down the back of her neck What beauty, pink ribbons Crisscrossed about her ankles Barely blushed like her cheeks As she spins to music [...]
©2010 Howard Paley "Stillness at Dawn," Sedona, AZ The photographer calls me Echoing God’s voice as it reverberates Against red walls of stone A sculpture of magical vistas whisper Dewey dawns of morning light Amethyst blush of babies cheeks Ochre shades of foxes’ tails Raccoon eyes that see the night Become [...]
by Jane Penland Hoover Some ladies in black hats, and red flowered Green jackets, have a way of entering a place, making heads turn, no matter their age. Society teaches to be envious of beautiful young women, with tight [...] Sandra Elizabeth Larson's Photos I sleep in sheets the color of the Caribbean Sea at sunrise Remember a midnight green sky full of stars falling As I travel fast, West on I-40 towards Arizona Since I can’t sleep in New Mexico At least not well. Pale autumn colors cover me as My olive skin [...] Maple, oak, aspen are going to sleep till spring Leaving behind a comforter of leaves In colors created by angels above the clouds Who sneak down before dawn With brushes held in pockets in their wings Dropping leaves of scarlet, tangerine, and lemon Leaves to warm the roots below, the earth above Even Sandia Mountain [...] First daffodils of spring blow and bend east and north with crisp winter winds bracing yellow petal hands against chilled sunshine faces smiling D R A W P U
Always upward towards a warming sun that sneaks bravely through clouds that just this morning dusted meadows with white [...] Denim blues on fences painted Jackalope Fences ©1996 by Joshua Liberman Ready for a party of skulls & wooden angels Hung on nails, left to wither… Adorn the roadside where we stop to buy chilies and beer Just past the right turn of the Rio Grande. Purple blue mountain ranges divide horizons Pointing North [...]
Citrus smells of childhood Lemon, orange, grapefruit Tasted through the car windows – Open Open… Letting March’s warmth in As waves of the Arizona desert air Come crashing against my cheeks. My heart skips beats of joy As the little girl plays hop-scotch Skipping on one foot, Then the other. In black patent [...] I paint in hues of wedgwood dust On a canvas of sandy beaches Freshly packed by gentle waves Under sunlit skies of gold and tangerine.
I paint in shades of ochre dim Of turned earth, wet with polka-dotted rain [...] |
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