Up The Spiral Staircase Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Up The Spiral Staircase

original plein air watercolor w/ barn, silo: 9" x 12"

Good Vibrations

i love the way

on a late august day

 the sun reaches down

to gather around

my sunflower girls

with their gold-yellow curls

and their skirts made of leaves

swaying in the breeze...

the birds of the air

and the insects working there

create a vibration

a vibrato celebration

as they all harmonize

their praise to the skies...

i’m thankful to be

by this shimmering sea

and grateful to hear

this music of the spheres

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Sophie's Sweet Talkin' Friends Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Sophie's Sweet Talkin' Friends

original watercolor landscape w/figure, pony, burrow : 10" x 14"

Sophie and I 

are asking you-all

are buttercups high in cholesterol?

they glisten like butter

in their gold-yellow clusters

we think they’d taste great

and we’d be well fed

if we used them as spread

on our jelly bread

wouldn’t popcorn just popped

be better with hot

melted buttercups drizzled

all over the top?

is lobster that’s baked

in buttercup paste  

richer in flavor

more pleasing to taste?

Sophie and I

just giggled and said

we think that we’ll paint

her new friends instead!

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The Boettcher House Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Boettcher House

original en plein air watercolor: the Boettcher House: 10"x 14"

and this is the question

can I toss intention

and renounce all strife

at this stage of life?

could I, if you please,

watch daytime TV

munch crackers and brie

sip Long Isle Iced Teas

would I, do you see,

be happy with ease??

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Conspiring Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Conspiring Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 9" x 14"

 The Alley Rally

The Golden Girls have gathered to rally

Around my backyard 

The Sunflower Alley

Bending down to admire

All the portraits they inspired

“Ooh yes, I see

That one looks like me!”

They all nod to agree

And reminisce nostalgically

Remember back in the day

We had our young

And frivolous ways

We listened to be-bop

While catching sun-drops

 “Those were the days, my friend

We thought they'd never end”…

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Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 9" x12"

Summer Blues Cruise

there’s plenty to do 

in summer it’s true

but sometimes I must

simply adjust

my take on all work

and shirk all that work

take time to relax

look forward, think back

embrace solitude

lighten my mood

it’s summertime blues

a rumination cruise

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Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 10" x 14" / 9" x 12"

Gossip Girls

The sunflower girls are gettin’ together for lunch

And gossip and news at the “Cafe Munch Bunch”.

The menu for today's Sunflower Brunch:

Bumble Bee Burgers and Golden Finch Fries

For dessert: Butterfly Splits and Dragonfly Pies....

So do not tarry, don't be late

For this fine midday tete-a-tete!

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Com-Posers Watercolors by Bertie Brown

 Com-Posers

original: 9" x 12"

Green Acres

original watercolor landscape en plein air w/barn, fields: 9" x 12"

What HO!

Say it’s not so

that sound that i hear

humming tunes that i fear

and what’s that i see

in the scene before me

a dry sculpted shell

of a locust…what the ‘L?

it’s just but July

my mind fairly cries

i need lots more time

and summer sunshine

what solace i find

in sunflowers is mine

so locusts, you stop

your late summer talk

my backyard’s all dressed

and dandied it’s best

so let me enjoy

my well deserved rest

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