Soul-Generating Art
© Surazeus
2025 12 13

The sweet little girl in lush field of flowers
plays with the shiny key-words of her heart
which her father forged from water and stone
by catching lightning strikes with gentle hands
so she transforms wild swirls of energy
to fruits and vegetables that bloom from dirt.

Loading pushcart with baskets of ripe fruit,
Pomona travels across bumpy fields
to large ring of stones on the river shore
where people gather every afternoon
to exchange rich produce of the fertile Earth,
then feast and sing in the cool evening dusk.

Working all evening in the restaurant,
Pamela brings plates and glasses of food
to people gathered at tables of faith
where they eat and talk with passionate joy,
then lies exhausted on her bed at home
and thinks about the ancient times in Rome.

While imagining simple ways of life
in ancient times before technology,
Pamela sketches young girl with long hair
who sells fruit from her pushcart by the tree,
then shares ripe apples with the handsome boy
who roasts fish he caught for them both to eat.

Though life seems simple in those ancient times,
stronger people often exploit the weak,
but today government agents run laws
providing everyone who wants to work
protections against exploitative greed,
though that system seems to be breaking down.

I cannot tell if life in ancient times,
tending trees of fruit with attentive hands
to protect them from harsh weather and thieves,
or life today as waitress serving food
then watching shows on computer at night,
is the lifestyle I would prefer the most.

This organic body of chemicals
that conjures my conscious soul from its brain
requires constant input of biomass
that we produce from fertile soil of Earth
so we must gesture with physical craft
to sustain body-vibrant glow of life.

When immortal soul of Pomona wakes
in mind of her descendant Pamela,
her spirit of soul-generating art
inspires her to maintain strict daily rite
working to provide food people must eat
so she can eat and enjoy painting comics.

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Orpheus finds Pamela at the comic book convention where he buys the latest comic book in her series about Pomona, the fruit girl of ancient Rome
who helps Phoebus solve murder mysteries.

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