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The gift to create form, from the mist of imagination, is pure magic!


Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Mandragora

 




29.0 x 9.5 inches; Watercolour, pen and ink over graphite pencil on handmade paper (Click on image to enlarge)

 

Twilight in the park

Awakens the fireflies,

Liminal magical beings

Discard their shadows,

Glowing with urgent eyes

Desires that seek the dark.

 

A bush lightly trembles

Growing into life, lazily,

Like a long drawn yawn

Leaving your bed of leaves,

Flipping tousled head hazily

A smile tickling me crumbles.

 

The scent of pleasure

Conjures a potent embrace,

With promises of resurrection

Flowing in our excited veins,

Needy kisses drunkenly trace

The elixir we warily treasure.

 

Cracks open the shell

Bursting boils of repression,

Sighs escape turning us deaf

To screams in our tortured heads,

Grasping this moment of elation

Before hiding, back in our hell.

 

2 comments:

Incognita said...

Wow - I love this painting, the colors. I love the lushness - vegetation and mushrooms. So much I want to say. That poem made me go into a dark place with a kind of phosphorescence. And those roots, oddly delicate. I feel I can see through his body.
"Liminal magical beings

Discard their shadows,

Glowing with urgent eyes

Desires that seek the dark."
This is that man and I had spoken about the roots before. But today he meets me as a different man with different insights.

Rijita said...

Absolutely brilliant Rudra. Cathartic yet beautiful. The pain meandering through the representation of the thought so well celebrated via what you have created. Art in totality… the celebration of everything bodily yet so inexplicably beyond.
You are amazing Rudra. I love this ♥️♥️♥️♥️