Pages 11 & 12

[Artguy]

Prairie Possibility

From an ancient prairie
Slavs, Tsars and Cossacks
To a land uncut
Home to the beaver
Moose
Loon
And Raven,(It laughs at their ways)
Redmen roamed and hunted
Buffalo
Deer
And rabbit
It's called Can/ada
They came
Cut the land
Ploughed and sewed
Built wood towers
Giants on the land
Stoic
Solid
Proud
They hold their golden grain
Golden wheat
Bent in the wind
Beneath great wild sky
Eternity
Horizon
Low and distant
Here they toiled
Calloused hands
Broken backs
Danced their Slavic dance
Fiddle and bass
Prayed to their God
For deliverance
To a heaven
Beyond the great wild sky
Beyond the raven
There they died
Surrendered to the land
Newly sewn
With seed of the future
From Slavic past

[judih]

very powerful - this ode with this painting

[dadio]

Yes, I concur with judih.

[saw]

very appealing dimensions to wrap your mind around......it oddly made me think of Neil Young's songs about the great plains.......thanx

[Arcadia]

I remember the painting well!. It dialogues great with the poem, beautiful artguy!!!!

[Doreen Peri]

OK ok... love the painting and the poem! But... this is page 11 and 12 of what? A book you're creating?

Please tell us more! I'd love to hear about your project!

[Artguy]

Hmmm...I know I wrote about it somewhere here some time ago...yes it is a book project with a painting on one page and a poem opposite....

[Doreen Peri]

Ohhh cool! I either missed it, didn't see the post... or don't remember reading it. Sighh.. sorry!

Are you using CreateSpace? Or Blurb? Or ???

When will the book be out? I want to buy one!

Congrats on the project!

PS- I haven't forgotten you. I just don't know what to send you. Can I send you a piece of artwork? You asked for poetry but I'm into painting now so I don't know what to send you. I'm so confused!

[Artguy]

At the snail pace I work I am just rough drafting everything now. I don't know anything about self publishing yet.