Poppy Pizzicato
original watercolor floral/poppies: 14"w x 11"h
Poppy Pageant
More little red-haired girls
Than we’d hoped for or imagined
It looks just like
A beauty queen pageant!
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Beach Music
original watercolor still life with shells, bottles: 19"w x 17"h
Sophie Says
Hey there BB
What’s the matter
You look sadder
Than I’ve seen you
What can I do
To help you through
This long season, what’s the reason for this blue mood?
Well now, Sophie
It’s this painting
It is heading
For a shredding
I am shirking
Failure’s lurking
Apprehension brings congestion to my working...
Wait a minute
Let’s review it
There is something
Good that’s due it
Its got movement
That’s conducive
To the theme you’ve worked on, finish and include it!
Okay Sophie
I’m supposing
You’re proposing
I keep going
So I’ll suffer
While you buffer
All my fears of failing, now let’s start another!
BB
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Poppy Pizzicato
original watercolor floral/poppy: 5"w x 7"h
POPPY!
Morning light
Sunshine bright
My first Poppy
This spring in sight!
Orange lace
Pretty face
Gazing high
To friendly skies
On one long leg
It pops about
Calling her ‘buds’
To come on out!
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Poppy Pizzicato
original watercolor floral/poppies: 8"w x 10"h
Sophie’s Spring
Grassy green grass
Prickles and tickles
Sophie’s pink piggies
All wiggly and squiggly
Babbling birdie birds
Chirp quirky birdie words
Buzzing bees fly
By Sophie’s blue eyes
Daffodils gaze
Tulips parade
My poppies sing praise
Springtime, nature’s fling-time
“Neath a shy smiling sun
Nature’s prelude
To the deluge
Of summer days soon to come..
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Bonaventure Vista/Savannah
original watercolor landscape/Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah: 9"w x 12"h
A vista,
a hint
a brief descriptive glimpse
of Bonaventure’s sights
bathed in Low Country light
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Poppy Pizzicato
original watercolor floral/poppy: 8"w x 10"h
Orange Blaze Poppy Craze!
Sophie and I are ecstatic and delighted
We’ve made a discovery
And we’re so excited
Our poppies are budding
Poking up from their beds
With fuzzy green heads
And we just can’t wait
For a plein air painting date
When they pop out of their skins
And we settle in
For a quick painting session
As we compose our impressions...
Petticoats dancing
Leggy stems prancing
Blue centers waving
Orange petals blazing.....
We’ve gotta be greedy
With our time and be speedy
Cause Poppies don’t last
So we gotta paint fast!
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Sophie's Picnic
original still life watercolor with pitcher, daffodils, oranges: 17" x 17"
Sophie and I
Are enjoying this fine weather
With temps in the 70’s
It couldn’t be better!
This sweet summer prelude
Has put us in the mood
For picnics at brunch
That last until lunch
Our silly girl talks
Become lazy long walks
Then quick jaunty jogs
In our sporty running togs
Return us home safe
Where nap-time awaits!
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Daffodil Daze
original floral watercolor/daffodils: &7"w x 11"h
Sophie’s First Daffodil
As Sophie and I
Went out for our walk
We sang silly songs
And giggled and talked
Till we came to a hill
And there by the way
Bloomed a lone daffodil
A perky yet mellow
Friendly little fellow
We bent down to sniff
The petals just a bit
But I must confess
Though our sniffers did their best
We didn’t smell a thing
Except perhaps
A bit of Spring..........!
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Savannah's Bonaventure
original watercolor landscape/Bonaventure Cemetery: 12"w x 12"h
Like most things Savannah
there’re places you hafta’
check out despite
the buggers that bite
Bonaventure’s a sight
that mustn’t be missed
it’s moss draped and sun-kissed
and high on my list
of tourist-y fav’rites
but do be forewarned
it’s next to a salt marsh
where bugs wait in swarms
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St. Patty's Day on Jones
original watercolor cityscape/Savannah: 11"w x 14"h
St Patty's Day on Jones
is a big deal don't ya know
it's celebrated for a week
Bangers and Mash is what's to eat
and their drink is green beer
so of course everywhere
there's lots of good cheer!
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Savannah on Jones
original watercolor city scape/Jones St., Savannah: 11"w x 14"h
oh Annabelle and I
love blue Savannah skies
a warm and friendly clime
where spanish mosses sway
draped o’re live oak archways
that line most city streets
and shade us from the heat
where gardens lush and fine
thrive almost all the time
and fountains sing their songs
of goodwill all day long
But one thing that we hate
when sleeping bugs awake
and make the big mistake
of thinking that we taste
just like praline pancakes
and gather up en-mass
to break their night-time fast
and feast upon our skin
from toes to chinny-chins!
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Dollars and Sense
original watercolor still life with sand dollars, books, lamp: 17"w x 15"h
oh to be
by the sea
on a day such as this
would it be
could it be
just the ultimate bliss....
treasures free
(there’s no fee)
in the ocean abyss
and these finds
so sublime
become still lifes of mine
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Musically Inclined/Jazz
original musical motif watercolor/Sax, Trumpet, Clarinet: 15"w x 18"h
Saxi-phone Facts
It’s a well known fact
our jazz-ical sax
is a woodwind that’s
disguised in brass
and so it goes
with both of those
a trumpet made of brass
a clarinet with class
a Sax with lots of sass
gathering together
to play what we call Jazz
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Swan Song/Violin, Poppy
original watercolor still life with poppy, violin, oranges: 18"w x 15"h
and the poppy sang along
to the violin’s swan song
while the citrus in box seats
wearing pastel couture chic
whispered out their pleased Bravo
as the violin bowed low
‘cause that poppy stole the show!
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L'Orangerie
original watercolor still life with violin, oranges: 15"w x 18"h
What could Matisse say
about “L’Orangerie”
would he just click his tongue
say this work is fun
and call it a day
then pick up and play
that small violin
in his unique way
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Sea Treasures
original watercolor still life with shells, book, sea glass lamp:14"w x 12"h
Blue skies
Sunshine
Tybee tides
Sea treasures fine
This friendly clime
I've come to find
Is Georgia
Sweet Georgia on my mind......
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Musically Inclined/Brass Trio
original musical motif watercolor/brass trio: 15"w x 18"h
menage a trois
if the trombone’s in charge
the trumpet won’t play
the horn won’t say
if he’ll go or stay
such is the way
our world behaves today
compromise is out
dissonance has clout
there could be peace and harmony
‘cause trios can play charming-ly
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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 spring-fed 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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Musical Props
original watercolor still life with accordion/clarinet: 22"w x 18"h
Musical Props
accordion to the donkey
the clarinet is NOT honky
and says the donkey
the accordion’s not wonky
but, admits he
it depends on, you see
who’s got the chops
and who’s playin’ those dots
and the keys on these
two instruments, if you please
he notes as he trots
through the musical props
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Poppy Poser
original watercolor still life with Matisse fabric and poppy
17"w x 15"h
Molly’s Packrat
the fact is this
(it cannot be missed)
Molly follows her bliss
painting day and night
‘til she gets her work right
then hands it to me
when it’s ready to mat
saying you can do that
then put it in the pack
on the “For Sale” rack
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Molly and Matisse
watercolor still life in progress
Molly’s Folly
Molly works out
it’s plain to see
just look at that sleek
leg and furry knee
she stays in top shape
‘cause she knows it makes
her creative self soar
through the work she adores
drawing and painting
it’s never a chore!
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