Art appreciation comes calling dressed in horse feathers

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Open Poetry #27

Art appreciation comes calling dressed in horse feathers

Ishmael
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since 2003-06-01

Posts 51

0 posted 2003-07-06 06:58 PM

Art appreciation comes calling dressed in horse feathers

As The Worm, while in pontific pose
was explaining how
he always incorporated a bit of himself
into every painting

Pointing out, with a still laden brush
those parts that that best illustrated
his heart and his humanity

Dogboy wondered aloud
Just when he would get around
to painting women without clothing
“Something a lot less…You”
“And decidedly more human”

(Iggy, stood before the canvas, chin in hand
and asked quite earnestly
“So? That’s not a horsey?)

[This message has been edited by Ishmael (07-06-2003 10:39 PM).]

Ceinwyn
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since 2000-07-09

Posts 2175
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1 posted 2003-07-06 07:36 PM

I smile when I don't know what to say..sorry I'm not good at this comment thing...all I have for you is a smile and an "enjoyed"

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

IntoTheFlames
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since 2003-06-21

Posts 92
Va, USA

2 posted 2003-07-06 10:05 PM

Truely great write!

~*Summer*~

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2003-07-06 10:12 PM

LOL, especially since horses don't have feathers...but who cares?

no Iggy,
it ain't a horsey

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

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in the shadows

4 posted 2003-07-06 11:42 PM

An interesting poem. I had my own visual though. "Horse feathers" are the thin wispy strips that used to be cut from cedar boards to turn the boards into clapboards for siding a house. They were scrap but found many uses in the early american building trades. Mostly as shins to make hand cut lumber line up.

I don't know why they were called horse feathers just that they were. Perhaps because in a pinch they were used on the floors of temporary horse stalls instead of hay.

Still a very interesting poem.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

5 posted 2003-07-08 12:25 PM

OH my.

smiling wicked here--wondering who has the "spot"?

You are writing the trinity, Ish.

I stay tuned, rapt attention, for another exciting episode.

You write the inner workings with grace and humor.

Bonfirelight
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 85
London, England

6 posted 2003-07-08 03:30 AM

nice one.

i love these!

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