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Com-posers
10"w x 13"h
Bed Heads
Rain-drops are falling on the heads
Of all my sunflowers
Bursting up from their beds!
Soon, dancing in the aisles
They look down on me
With knowing smiles
And do the Jitter-bug hop...
Ahhh,
I never want them to stop!
Oh, happiest summer’s days
Under the season’s golden haze...
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Lyrical Landscape
11"w x 14"h
Summer meadows
Smocked, calico print dresses
In pinks, yellows, greens and reds
Pastures of ruffled petticoats
Stitched delicately with yellow-green threads
Enveloped in bustling bee harmonies
Enhanced by birdsong melodies....
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Beach Hash
10"w x 13 1/2h
Ghost Crabs
Harmless sand creatures
All top speed and scurry,
With quick stop and go features
As Porsche race cars in a hurry!
Playing tag, hide and go seek
All day long on the beach
With sand, sun, the sea....
And especially, me!
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(There may or may not
Be a crab in this lot
I really can't tell
'Cause they hide out so well
Under any old shell...)
Busy Being Beets
11"w x 14"h
Busy Being Beets
Sophie and I
Were shopping for clues
What could we possibly
Paint that is new
We passed by the eggplants
With nary a glance
We‘ve done them before
Those radishes next door
Were also a boor...
But then Sophie spied
From the corner of her eye
Red beets in a bunch
And she had hunch
Their leaves were so busy
Dancing this way and that
She said we should paint them
And work really fast!
We finished the painting
Our energy waning
We needed a nap
And knew it was time
To end this short rhyme...
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Pear and Pomegranate Promenade
22"w x 30"h
Promenade
Let the pear and pomegranate
Promenade begin
Over Matisse inspired fabric
They all march in
Three Pears in a bowl
That’s my grandma’s, really old
The bottle behind
Dates back to an earlier time
The spoon in the foreground
Brings us right in
The stripes in the background
Keep our eye down
And all of these elements
Keep our eye traveling
Around and around.
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Molly
Sophie’s Proposal
Sophie and I
Were quiet and peaceful
Listening to tunes
In our creative arts room.
Suddenly Sophie insisted
I send some of our work
Off to an editor
Ackkkk,
I needed to be readier!
She called me a ‘twerp’
“Our poems are cute
Creative and smart
Stop dawdling and start
Producing some art!
A painting of Ozzie
Could you do one of Molly?
And absolutely most definitely
We need one of me!”
“Our fans love our musings
Imagined or real
A book series deal
Could happen!” she squealed.
I looked up proposals
And worked my way through it
Gathered poems and art
Sophie knew I would do it...
It’s e-mailed and gone
We just hope that the wait’s
Not terribly long.........
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Molly’s Fat Tire
What ho!
Where did our Molly go?
Sophie and I want to know...
She’s hidin’ in a box
Lookin’ a mite distraught
And also kinda’ blue
‘Cause the only thing in view
Is a bottle of Fat Tire Brew
And ‘though she knows
It’s smooth as silk
She’d rather have a bowl of milk!
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Eggplant Eggs-travaganza
13"w x 10"h
Egg-ceptional Eggplants
Sophie says let’s do a painting today
We’ll use some veggies
With plenty to say
There at the groc’ry store
Dark and demure
Eggplants so purple
Their beauty secure...
Yes, let’s buy them
Not to fry them
But to show the world
Their outspoken beauty
It’s really our duty
To capture their deep.....
Dark sheen!
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Radish Recital
image:13 1/2"w x 10 3/4"h
Radish Recital
Sophie said, Lets use our new paints today
Carmine and Windsor blue
Areolin too
What could we paint
With our trio so quaint
Radishes, I think, would work out just great...
Wet applications
Give us saturations
Int-resting patterns
With water and spatters
Red, blue and yellow
Make fine pallet-fellows
Radishes Blush
Their round cheeks red and lush...
And the foliage
Green and gold-ish
Finish off the work
The radishes vital
A rich red recital
Is now on display
Today!
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NY State of Mind
image:6"w x 8 1/2"h
framed:13 1/2"w x 17 1/2"h
“It’s Raining, It’s Pouring....
Sophie and I were bored
As we peered out the back door
And had to acknowledge
The steady downpour
We put on our thinking caps
Our imagination soared!
Hmm, I know,
Let’s go to New York and back
Via Lancaster’s Amtrak.
We’ll walk up Fifth Ave
Take in all the sights
We do wish “Les Mis”
Was playing The Shubert tonight.
We’ll visit Times Square
With bright neon lights
On tall buildings everywhere..
We quickened our step
We really must get
Ourselves to the Met
For a fabulous new show
Bronzino drawings, you know....
The day was soon gone
We made our way back
To Grand Central Station
Our memories intact.
This mini- vacation
Was great stimulation
The ride home so relaxing
We spent the time happily...
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Dunes Dance
image: 18 1/2"w x 8 1/2"h
framed: 28 1/2"w x 19"h
Barrier Islands
All bluster and bluff
With towering tides
Racing to shore
Always in a huff
Biting the beach
Advancing more and more....
The sighing sands
Surrender their turf
While tall dancing dunes
Watch over the surf
Their beach bonnets swaying
And “No Trespassing” signs waving.......
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Musically Inclined
10 1/2"w x 13 1/2h
Brass Class
Its a well known fact
That a trio of brass
Is hard to beat
In terms of class.
And favorite things
Are not much better
Not chocolate or cheese cake
Nor lobster or steak
Not mountains or beaches
Nor clear mountain lakes
Not cool drinks in summer
Nor hot drinks in winter
Not even sun-showers
That grow my sunflowers
The one thing that’s better
Than a classy Brass Trio
would certainly be
A Mozart Horn Solo..
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Peppers here, peppers there
Peppers poppin’ everywhere
Some are yellow
Some serene green
All are mellow
Laid back fellows
Let’s not stop
With that mild lot
Let’s go for HOT
And that means RED
The big red bell?
Well, probably not
But you can tell
Those small hot shots
Are packin’ heat
That’s tough to beat!
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A Puzzlement
I wonder how so small yet intricate
This new-born girl so petite, delicate
Could steal our hearts completely away
With her first entrance
Into our arms this day.
we gaze upon her, oh so tender
To her our lives we do surrender.
So this is what they call selfless love
Sent down to us from heaven above.
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Sunflower Girl
Thank you, Sophie, my sunflower girl
For doing your part
As each day that you visit
You bring a bit of summertime back into my heart
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The “Sophie Mobile”
Sophie’s got a new red car
That’s gonna take her near and far
It’s plush and bright
For her, just right
A “Sophie Mobile”
With purple wheels
It’s fully loaded
A dashboard that’s bloated!
With air bags and belt
Both made of felt
A seat the size
Of Sophie inside
With a rearview mirror
So she can see clearer
To check her hair
(She’s a diva, let’s be fair!)
There’s a key for the ignition
Where she goes is her decision..
For tunes, she’s got a radio,
A horn that blows
A trunk to stow
(I guess that’s now
Where I will go!)
And one thing more
inside the door,
It has a little space
The perfect storage place
That’s baby bottle shaped
Where it now sits
For her to sip.
Rhythm & Blues
21"w x 27"h
Rhapsody
“Rhapsody in Blue”
Was our music today
Sophie and I thrilled
To the opening way
That the clarinet soared
Through that octave and more...
We set up a still life
With lots of great blues
We have so much fabric
It’s hard just to choose
Then added some apples
Three bottles, two bowls
On top of the fabric
With plenty of folds
We hummed to the tunes
While painting till noon
Sophie, my rhapsody
In tap dancin’ shoes
Gerschwin and Orchestra
Playin’ his blues!
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Uptown Girls
12 1/2w x 17 1/2h
“It’s Raining, It’s Pouring....
Sophie and I were bored
As we peered out the back door
And had to acknowledge
The steady downpour
We put on our thinking caps
Our imagination soared!
Hmm, I know,
The Strasburg Railroad goes
To Paradise and back
A short scenic trip
Where Amish farms sit.
Sophie said, “No!”
We’ve already seen that
Let’s go to New York
Via Lancaster’s Amtrak.
We’ll walk up Fifth Ave
Take in all the sights
We do wish “Les Mis”
Was playing The Shubert tonight.
We’ll visit Times Square
With bright neon lights
On tall buildings everywhere..
We quickened our step
We really must get
Ourselves to the Met
For a fabulous new show
Bronzino drawings, you know.
Let’s not forget
That giant statue-et
We hailed a taxi
To the Staten Island Ferry
The ride was right quick
With no time for me
To be quite sea-sick!
The day was soon gone
We made our way back
To Grand Central Station
Our memories intact.
This mini- vacation
Was great stimulation
The ride home so relaxing
We spent the time happily
Dozing and napping...
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Grandmothers All
My vibrant sunflowers, once so spry
Have bent down a bit
Heaving a small sigh.
Arms now rest at their hips,
Heads no longer held high.
As they gather their skirts
With a knowing shrug
And tighten their bonnets,
In a sly little tug.....
Oh, they still love their quilting bees,
A Butterfly Ballet,
And fat golden finches,
Those hungry dine-ees.....
.Ahh, grandma sunflowers,
Now surely they be
Growing old so graciously.....
They're still beautiful to me.
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The Brass Kingdom reigns
At the back of the stage
Looking over their subjects
In the rows down below
Now those Woodwinds don’t tow
As they do rightly know
That they have the means
To keep the pitch low
The Strings try to show
Their dominance, don’t ya know
While sitting at the toes
Of the Maestro’s looming pose...
Now a wise conductor knows
The music and musicians
Are the stars of his shows
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Com-poser
each: 11"w x 14"h
The Alley Rally
The Golden Girls have gathered to rally
'Round my backyard Sunflower Alley.
Bending down to admire
All the portraits they did inspire.
“Oohs “ and “ahhs”... Yes, they see.
“That one looks like me!”
They all nod to agree
And reminisce nostalgically.
Not so long ago,
“It's only weeks, don't ya know!”
Remember back in the days
We had our young
And innocent ways,
We danced the jitter-bug hop
While catching golden sun-drops.
Surely, “Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end”.........
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Rhythm & Blues
14 1/2"w x 12 1/2"h
ready to frame
Rhapsody
“Rhapsody in Blue”
Was our music today
Sophie and I thrilled
To the opening way
That the clarinet soared
Through that octave and more...
We set up a still life
With lots of great blues
We have so much fabric
It’s hard just to choose
Then added some apples
A lemon and mug
And threw some old brushes
Into a jug
We hummed to the tunes
While painting till noon
Sophie, my rhapsody
In tap dancin’ shoes
Gerschwin and Orchestra
Playin’ his blues!
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