An art dedicated to "Old man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
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An art work dedicated to the poem " Waterfall " by Lauris Edmond I do not ask for youth, nor for delay in the rising of time's irreversible river that takes the jewelled arc of the waterfall in which I glimpse, minute by glinting minute, all that I have and all I am always losing as sunlight lights each drop fast, fast falling.
An art work dedicated to the poem "The Eclipse of the Sun" by William Wordsworth "High on her speculative Tower Stood Science waiting for the Hour When Sol was destined to endure That darkening of his radiant face Which Superstition strove to chase, Erewhile, with rites impure." Ref: https://thepoetland.com/poem/the-eclipse-of-the-sun-1820/
An art work dedicated to " Lift Every Voice and Sing " by James Weldon Johnson "Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won." Ref: https://poets.org/poem/lift-every-voice-and-sing
An artwork dedicated to Sonnet XIV by Shakespeare. "And, constant stars, in them I read such art As truth and beauty shall together thrive, If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert; Or else of thee this I prognosticate: Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date." Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_14
Looking-glass River
This painting in Acrylic (size 24”X18”) is an interpretation of Reflections in general and an ode to a great poem "Looking-glass River" a 1900 poem by RL Stevenson .................. Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam-- O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream! ..................... To read the full poem follow: https://www.lnstar.com/mall/literature/rls/Looking-glassRiver.htm
Ode to Kathmandu
This painting in Acrylic (size 24”X18”) is an ode to Kathmandu and also an interpretation of the poem " The Green Eye Of The Little Yellow God" a 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes .................. There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down. ..................... To read the full poem follow: https://allpoetry.com/The-Green-Eye-Of-The-Little-Yellow-God