Stroke Of The Paintbrush
© Surazeus
2025 02 17

Each stroke of the paintbrush on nothingness
exposes raw emotions our minds hide
behind pretty images of cute birds
chirping cheerfully in luminous trees
so we become beauty we want to see
in this world where death determines all fates.

While gazing at the woman with long hair,
Pablo squints his eyes tight to readjust
attentive focus of distorted sight
which fractures image of her anguished face
expressing sorrow of shy Hecuba
over suffering deaths her children endure.

When we encounter objects of desire
at heart-opening song of the church choir,
we pour intensive energy of hope
to fuel flames of passion we dramatize
in social play with investment of love
to insure productive return unpaid.

Each vibrant sound of verbal sentencing,
by which we frame conceptual images,
encloses within narrow path of lust,
that limits consequences of strict acts,
random possible outcomes of respect
with special circumstance we hope occurs.

Painful regret yet motivates our play
attempting to unwind adverse results
from cataclysmic cycles unforetold
by flight of birds across inaugural skies,
since we cannot backtrack time to reverse
harmful effects of carelessly thrown words.

Disastrous fortune ungambled by trust
hardens circumstance of our fractured state
in fraught material frame of reference
that traps our journey of progress now stalled
by twisted morals of blind prejudice
disturbing calmness of stoic regret.

When complex relationships of commerce,
entangling expectations of hard dreams,
are broken by obsessive greed of thieves,
fragile state of institutional growth
falters from disruption of social ties
severed by aggression of fascist hate.

With awful shock of confusing surprise
we grasp at ropes that bound progressive sails
to bind again strict embrace of fierce faith
constraining energy of motive force
so we can guide our lurching ship of state
balanced again through oscillating flight.

surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/02/…

Orpheus and Pablo Picasso sail the ship of state across the wild Atlantic Ocean to secret island of the Hesperides.

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #MetaRomanticism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism