POEM: Dali’s Ghost
This poem was written to the art below, by Romanian artist gyurka. It is the featured image on this week’s CPC Simple Sunday picture challenge.
DALI’S GHOST
From his divine conjural perch
the Dali Rama can review
the products of his lifelong search
to fascinate the likes of you.
Of terraced hillsides feeding those
who lived in whitewashed villages.
Of sand dunes made of paintbrushed prose
and fishers’ seaside pillages.
The crafting twixt truth and absurd,
expending energies of life,
to fabricate like wirewalk bird
surreal with brush and palette knife.
Upon the same legacy scene
he sees you viewing his career.
And wonders, did you truly glean
some value from what he held dear?
In pregnant instant all’s made whole
if in your eyes his fleeting ghost
collects appreciation’s toll
and knows his soul survived its host.
Copyright August 19th 2012 RGD