Chicken Trix
original watercolor chickens
You cannot be chicken
If you play french horn
Unless you are thinkin’
You’d like a good lickin’
When that horn does balk
Sounding out a loud squawk
And Beethoven rolls over
As you shrug your shoulder
BB'21
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Methods and Madness
Sometimes I paint fast and loose
Other times quite controlled
The subject decides the method
But each work has the same goal:
A painting that is successful
And beautiful to behold!
BB
Chicken Trix
original watercolor chickens
You cannot be chicken
If you play french horn
Unless you are thinkin’
You’d like a good lickin’
When that horn does balk
Sounding out a loud squawk
And Beethoven rolls over
As you shrug your shoulder
BB'21
Pep Rally
original watercolor still life w/peppers: 10" x 14"
as summer reclines
in translucent honey haze
autumn comes alive
with transparent amber days
inky blue nights
fill infinite skies
cool winds collide
pushing summer aside
from translucent to transparent
these transitions are inherent
seasons come and they go
with their foibles quite apparent
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Pepper Platter
original watercolor peppers/sunflowers: 10" x 14"
as summer reclines
in translucent honey haze
autumn comes alive
with transparent amber days
inky blue nights
fill infinite skies
cool winds collide
pushing summer aside
from translucent to transparent
these transitions are inherent
seasons come and they go
with their foibles quite apparent
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Welcome Autumn
original bertie brown banner
with summer concludin'
my house is exudin'
a welcoming style
so do come on in
and visit awhile
I’ll put on some tunes
how’s Beethoven for you?
and we can create
our own unique view
with a banner or two
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Sunny Soiree
original watercolor sunflowers: 10" x 15"
Good Vibrations
I love the way
on a late Autumn 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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Toast!
cheers to beginnings
for 2000-twenty some
i do hope my paintings
are touched with some fun
so here’s to good starts
whatever they be
as wet paper + paint
spread out before me
may each have a touch
of magic i trust
as i draw and paint
with pencil and brush!
BB
Practice makes better
But perfect?
Not ever...
Especially if horn playing
Is what you can do
You’ll prob’ly improve
But that’s questionable, too
My advice to you
Buy a French Horn Kazoo!
BB
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!
BB
Harmo-nious Perso-nious
went out for a run
this very fine day
had lots to be done
stuff that gets in the way
of some fun in the sun
but nature’s libretto
called out ceremo-nious
in pleasing vibrato
a sound tremolo-nious
twas something I sought to
experience in perso-nious
and when I got done
on this very fine day
from my run in the sun
I was all tuned up and completely harmo-nious
BB
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 croissants with cheese
sip Long Isle Iced Teas
would I, do you see,
be happy with ease??
BB