It’s A Rockwell Christmas @ Simple Sunday
Holiday greetings Poets!
Today we bring you an American favorite
for you poetic muse!
We bring you the Christmas charm of artist
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell was born in New York City on February 3, 1894.
Talented at a young age, he received his first commission
at age 17.In 1916, he created the first of 321 covers for
The Saturday Evening Post.
Rockwell’s Americana images were loved by the public,
but not embraced by critics. He created World War II posters
and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
He died on November 8, 1978.
http://www.biography.com/people/norman-rockwell-37249
Norman Rockwell thought of himself first and foremost a commercial illustrator. Hesitant to consider it art, he harbored deep insecurities about his work. What is unmistakable, however, is that Rockwell tapped into the nostalgia of a people for a time that was kinder and simpler. His ability to create visual stories that expressed the wants of a nation helped to clarify and, in a sense, create that nation’s vision. His prolific career spanned the days of horse-drawn carriages to the momentous leap that landed mankind on the moon. While history was in the making all around him, Rockwell chose to fill his canvases with the small details and nuances of ordinary people in everyday life. Taken together, his many paintings capture something much more elusive and transcendent — the essence of the American spirit.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/norman-rockwell/about-norman-rockwell/689/
Let the art work below be the inspiration for you poetry today!
Let the spirit of these holidays
carry you along a poetic journey of
Family fun and memories!
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Let us know if you Liked today’s art!
I’m looking forward to our time again
for sharing next week!
One Summer Dream
~Cynthia~
My apologies to all the poets and pals for the late posting. I’m not sure how long I can be on-line today. We’re without power and Jon had to load this blog from our laptop by using our SUV electrical outlet. A winter storms has hit us hard in northern California and the winds are to be worse today. We’ve been without power for 2 days because of a tree falling and taking down power lines. Everyone’s okay and safe. The tree landed out in the street this time.
I’ll check in as often as I can and hope we get our power back today.
Please enjoy “A Rockwell Christmas” everyone.
Cynthia
:love: :love:
MISTER POSTMAN
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Mister postman
Out early on his routes
Deliverin mail and gifts
To all the neighbor far and near
Children cheerfully runin a along side playin the guessin game
Of whats in the boxes and wonderin
If any are their
Querstionin the postman
Hey misterman
You gotta lot of mail
And gifts to deliver on this cold and snowy day
Hope sum of those are ours
Merrily they were on their way
Sing Christmas carols sayin
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays mister postman
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Written By: Bettie Davis ——————- © December 23 , 2o12
httpv://youtu.be/ln01p1M2cH0
THE SUPRISE GIFTS
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Happily ridin in the red sleigh
In the pretty white snow on the way to deliver gifts
To all good little girls and boys
Presents nicely piled upon the girls lap
Snap went the whip
Away went the horses
Not too fast
Are too slow yet
Just right the horse trot
Over the hills and through the woods
There we are to the village
Beautiful lit were all the houses and trees
Merry Christmas shouted the man as the girl handed out the gifts
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Written By: Andrea & Bettie —————– © December 23 , 2o12
httpv://youtu.be/wKj92352UAE
The beauty of his art
With so, much shared from the heart
No matter what your age
His art inspired love light never dark
So, much all can relate to he was smart
SAY IT ISN’T SO, NORM!
Santa’s looking mighty jolly
But why are his eyebrows black,
while it appears all other hair
upon his face lacks black?
Could it be the strain of hefting
that sack upon his back
has somehow turned most hair to white,
but left his eyebrows black?
Perhaps it is the strain he feels
where nerves begin to crack.
Or maybe elfish mischievousness
has turned his eyebrows black?
One thing I had not thought about,
which takes a different tack:
could beard and mustache be glued on
to face with eyebrows black?
Could it be this Rockwell Santa
is really just a hack,
playing Santa Claus for us
in faux white and real black?
Oh woe to us big children who
believe Rockwell paints fact.
To think he’d render us a fake
raises my eyebrows, …brown!
Copyright December 24th 2012 RGD
Inspired by the Norman Rockwell painting “Deck The Halls”
I always loved Norman Rockwell paintings. Beautiful blog! I’m sorry I haven’t been here much to participate. I’ve been working two jobs and it leaves me no free time to have fun on here.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :love:
Thanks again Cynthia and Jon for bringing us this Norman Rockwell Christmas challenge. It has been very heartwarming! 😀 :love: :groovy: