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OwlSA
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0 posted 2009-07-24 04:59 PM



SHANTY EXTRAVAGANZA
24  July 2009

It was just a simple abode
- somewhere between a hut and a house –
that photograph –
similar to hundreds more
amongst the thousands
I was working on today,

but oh!
the washing on the line -
dancing in such joyous delight
that I wanted to laugh and leap
with it
and pirouette
and sing -
and their colours so soft and happy
in orange and turqoise and black
and pink and white and patterned,
imprinted
on my soul
past eternity.

Owl

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Midnitesun
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Gaia
1 posted 2009-07-24 05:17 PM


Good write, Diana! It's wonderful that you zoomed in on something as simple as laundry flapping in the breeze.
OwlSA
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2 posted 2009-07-24 05:22 PM


Thank you Kacy!  Smiles.  Actually, the laundry zoomed in on ME!  More smiles.

Owl

Margherita
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3 posted 2009-07-24 05:44 PM


Oh, Diana, how deeply I feel this one too, you have written it with such enthusiasm. Your joy is contagious!

You evoked a painting my husband had once bought (sadly not in our possession anymore ...), in which a woman hangs her laundry. It had those colors you describe so beautifully here and it emanated the joy and beauty of a daily gesture such as hanging the laundry. I adored that painting.

And I adore your Shanty Extravaganza.

Love,
Margherita  

OwlSA
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4 posted 2009-07-24 05:48 PM


Thank you Margherita for you delightful response, for remembering a painting you loved, and for painting it for me and any other who read this thread.  I can see it so clearly - and I love it too.

Owl

Oklahoma Rose
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5 posted 2009-07-25 10:30 AM


Very beautiful, Diana!
OwlSA
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6 posted 2009-07-25 11:47 AM


Thank you, Sue.

Owl

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