Too Hot to Trot Watercolors by Bertie Brown

 To Grandmother's House

original: 10" x 14"

Too Hot to Trot

original watercolor animal pic: 10" x 14" 

what HO

too bad i now know 

what living inside

a work zone implies 

‘cause circumsizin’

a basement flood zone

has taken it’s toll

 on ALL my household

the jackhammer’s jumpin’

that reverb is somethin’

there’s dust dancin’ round

the clean spots it’s found

my once tidy home

is mocking at me

my Mrs Clean throne

has picked up and gone

i’ve gotta stop frettin’

and throw in the towel

the dust, it will settle

soon, but not now

then final-ly

my job is i see

to clean until fall

2019

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The Shack in the Back Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Shack in the Back

original en plein air landscape: 10" x 14"

Cold Front

The windows I’m closin’

my sunflowers need  hosin’

it’s blisterin hot

not one cold spot

‘cept here by the door

of the freezer in the store

where I pretend to stock up

on creamsicle pops

but truth to be told

it’s just good to feel cold!

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Big Red Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Big Red

original watercolor with rooster: 9" x 12"

I think that it’s done

and I had some fun

‘though there a few 

solutions that skewed

my original view

and managed to be

surprising, you see

so now I don’t know

if it’s fit to show

if not,

 you’ve just got

to tell me to Stop!

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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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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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Barn-stable Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Barn-stable

original plein air watercolor w/barn, fields: 10" x 14"

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

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Barn-stable Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Barn-stable

original plein air watercolor w/barn: 6" x 10"

a Gettysburg farm

with old country charm

fields of clover and of corn

planted straight, in good form

a house neat and tall

with a chimney-ed east wall

the barn's 'round the bend

with horses in their pens

and wayward banty hens

gossiping with all their friends

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Angry Birds Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Angry Birds

original watercolor landscape w/chickens: 7" x 10"

I once had a thought

original and clever...

but that thought I forgot!

gone forever? I hope not..

still, I’m dismayed 

so fraught and distraught

‘cause it may have been great

that thought I just lost!

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The Red-Tethered Sheep Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Red-Tethered Sheep

original watercolor plein air w/sheep: 10" x 14"

A Spring Thing

Meadows bordering a grove of trees

Spreading a canopy 

Of blues and greens

Sifting a symphony

Intense, yet serene

Of filtered though slight

Shimmering sunlight

The pathway to spring

Is a glorious thing...

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