Butterfly Blues Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Butterfly Blues

original still life watercolor w/bottles, glass, sunflower: 15" x 22" 

Favorite Things

Molly and Ozzie and Sophie and me

Comfy and cozy

And ready to paint

Satin hemmed blankets

Tugged up to our chins

These and much more are our favorite things...

Cabled wool sweaters

Are just right for me

Fleece is much better

For Sophie’s soft cheek

Long runs and brisk walks

Short stories and long talks

Cocoa for Sophie 

And hot tea for me....

Mozart and Beethoven

Bach and Bartok

Dancing and singing

To classics and pop

Playing the French Horn

I liked that a lot

These and much more are our favorite things.....

When cold winds blow

And the skies snow

And we get the blues

We pick up our brushes

Our paper and paints

And paint till those blues

We loose!

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Glass Menagerie Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Glass Menagerie

original still life watercolor w/glass, bottles: 15" x 20"

Ode To An Old Friend

what ho

where did the years go

we just can’t be fixed

here at decade #6

not young nor carefree

we must learn to see

determin-edly

through love-filtered lens

ourselves as OLD friends!

we’ve been through a lot

those flashes were hot!

but give in, we’re not

we’ve got some regrets

but that stuff’s no sweat

where once we had pimples

we’re now sporting wrinkles

our firm derrieres 

have gone off elsewheres

our chests and our chins?

they’ve sunk to our shins

and do you remember

well

can you recall

anything you need to

anything at all?

but still we can laugh

at some high school gaffe

and reminisce by the hours

the good, bad, ugly

while we sit and smugly

think we’ve now arrived

o're 60, we’ve survived

and we’re not the faintest

nor least bit surprised...

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Transparent Sea Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Transparent Sea

original still life watercolr w/glass: 11" x 14"

SUMMER DATE

how i hate

all this wait-

ing it must cease

and desist

right this minute

i insist

go away

please don’t stay

 make your exit

from this stage

while you may

in a good way

for you know you are not wanted

and we all have been so haunted

by all your boorish-ly arctic taunts........

come here straight

don’t be late

pack your bags, HASTE

take a plane

not a train

or the highway

i beseech 

and entreat

please do hurry

to my doorstep 

you simply must scurry

for i need you more than ever

would you hasten to endeavor

to bring your sunshiny ways to me.......

winter GO

 spring is so

ambigue-oh

summer come

with your fun

in the sun oh

we will be 

final-ly

warm and cozy

oceanside

 under skies

blue and kind-ly.....

if it’s not too much to ask you

summer stay until the next June.....

2016 would that suit you???

Summer Please

Come see about Me!

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Blues Cruise Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Blues Cruise

original still life watercolr w/glass: 12" x 12"

What ho! 

the winds they were screamin’

my house it was leanin’

right into the flow

of last night's COLD blow

my windows were bulgin’

the furnace was pulsin'

that nor’easter’s hold

was keepin’ me cold

my goosebumps I declare

had goosebumps I swear

my nose it was froze

to my icicled toes

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Winter Blues Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Winter Blues

original watercolor still life w/bottles, glass: 13" x 11" 

“Rhapsody in Blue”

Was our music today

Sophie and I thrilled 

To the opening way

That clarinet soared

Through an 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 sass

A box and a tie

Four bottles, a glass

It looked oh so fine

We hummed to the tunes

While painting till noon

Sophie, my rhapsody

A five year old muse

Gerschwin and Orchestra

Playin’ his blues!

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