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Open Poetry #45

Girl Underwater

OldPoet
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since 2009-06-30

Posts 112
The Left Coast

0 posted 2009-07-13 01:10 AM

I almost never write to an image. I write first and then go searching for a synergistic image, except in this one sole instance. I was searching for an image to a poem (not yet posted) and that search led to an incredible coincidence. I found the perfect image in the form of the photo of a painting posted on the artist's Brooklyn web site. I grabbed the image and then returned to email the artist of what I was doing. It was then that noticed that she had a Bio page.

The info on that page stunned me. I contacted her and confirmed that her aunt was my mother's best friend while both were young women in my home town in Illinois.

The image for this poem, which I wrote for her, is Nancy's painting. My forthcoming poem "Ambivalence" is the painting that I originally found on her site. By the way, this is Nancy's self-portrait.

"And every time I've held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns,
And so it goes" - Billy Joel

OldPoet
Member

since 2009-06-30

Posts 112
The Left Coast

1 posted 2009-07-19 02:45 AM

Thank you!

"And every time I've held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns,
And so it goes" - Billy Joel

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