Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 5" x 7 1/2"

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 Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 4 1/2" x 8 1/2"

A Pleasin’ Reason for the Girls in Season

You’re probably bored

After all you’ve endured

These paintings of girls

And their golden curls

They do love to preen

In their gold and green

They freely admit

They’re a bit narcissist

So I stay the course

With no due remorse

Posting these pix

‘Cause they just insist

They must know the drill

The need they fulfill  

Their beauty will fade

As cool winds invade

So as the fall season

Begins that’s the reason

I post and I hope

 The paintings are pleasin’

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Creative Sewing by Bertie Brown

Creative Sewing for the Back to School Grandies

Absolutely Resolute

i’m absolutely certain

some truth is indisputable

and strictly put imputable

so don’t go all refutable

i don’t want your rebuttable 

that verbal psycho-babbable

you’re so above reproachable

and also un-correctable

but that’s just irresponsible

and truly indefensible

we could be more sympatico

if you weren’t so emphatico

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Piano Man Musical Motif Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Piano Man

original watercolor w/horn, piano, violin, Mozart: 11" x 14"

The Maestro’s Woes

Horns near the backdrop

The Strings own the front spots

Right in the center

Are the Woodwind renters

Drums and percussion

Beat out the instructions

Harp and Celesta 

Join in their discussions...

Playing together for better or worse

Learning the music

They all must rehearse

Perfecting rhythms

Some tricky, some fun

All of the orchestra

Playing as one...

Allegretto

Meno mosso

And Con Brio, too

Mezzo, Piano, Fortissimo Piu

We love all those ways 

To play!

Tubas and trombones

Will fight for their turf

Oboes with puffed cheeks

Look ready to burst

Flutes, Clarinets

The Violas, Trumpets

All so polite 

As they try not to fight.....

Instruments waiting for Maestro to cue

Watching the down beat

His hand in their view

A Violin shrieks

A clarinet squeaks

Scowls from the Maestro

But onward they go...

When notes don’t sing

From the high strings

Or a horn butts in

The music continues

The Maestro in tow

The audience shouts

“Bravo!”

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Gas From the Past Landscape Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Gas From the Past

original watercolor landscape: 11" x 14

a summer’s romance

that time to relax

glance forward, just a bit

but never look back...

jasmine and honeysuckle

sweet scents of seduction

flirty fireflies wink

quick bursts of combustion

warm summer nights

a cashmere caress

sun-drenched daylight

cool linen, dazzling white

 'tis summer’s sun-dance

these days go by fast

so enjoy while it lasts....

care to join me, by chance

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Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 14" x 14"

Ackkk!

 the sun’s in retreat 

giving me the cold shoulder

our summer romance

is apparently over

gone are the sundrops

warming my face

menacing shadows

have taken their place

 cobalt blue breezes 

rustle about

autumn is coming

of that there’s no doubt

my sunflowers are ruined

their beauty in tatters

seeds, petals, leaves

lie tossed about, scattered

i notice the dance 

of those spurious squirrels

as they snatch the remains

of my golden sun girls

more quickly than ants

at a picnic, they advance

and I thought that finches

were sunflower grinches!

now I’m left all alone

‘neath a dry, crumbling wall

where my sunflowers had stood

majestic and tall

so my task is to wait

for this fact I hold dear

they’ll be back next year

with more summertime cheer!

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Com-Posers Sunflower and Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Lyrical Landscape: 9" x 12

Com-Posers: 11" x 14"

original watercolor landscape and sunflowers

Sunflowers

sienna brown faces

sporting golden sun bonnets

reading Emily's quirky poems

and Edna's soaring sonnets

their leaves a canopy

of swirling skirts, it seems to me 

and stems so tall and true

standing proud on high heeled shoe   

with much grace they selflessly 

spill sweet nectar, share their seeds

while the birds and butterflies

and buzzing bees do drink and dine

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