Gone in a Waking Dream

by compound complex 22 Replies latest jw friends

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    I am caught up in quite the unexpected ...

    I hear the music of the Sea and her companion Sky. These luxuriant and melodic airs waft along the water's surface, carrying me effortlessly unto the azure expanse in an upward spiral whose magical transport I had believed attainable only through the office of a lengthy night's dream. Yet, I am fully awake, cognizant that, surely, this is neither apparition nor a conjurer's trick.

    Dialogue between an alternating crescendo and decrescendo of liquid waves and gentle but persisting zephyrs of earth's vault: this is a strange enchantment, music uncommon to once earthbound ears. Earlier, at the seashore, whence I've come, I marveled at the combined voices of Nature; they were delightful yet scarcely the ethereal bewilderment to my senses that now shivers my soul as I am borne higher, higher into the supernal realm beyond what eyes and ears of flesh behold....

    Do not expect me home any time soon.

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    I'm scared of deep water.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Do not be afraid, John Doe, for I am your friend. Come, let my waves wash over you as I draw you deeper into a world of sights and sounds unimagined.

    Bring an aqualung ...

    The Sea

  • BabaYaga
    BabaYaga

    ~smile~~~~~~

  • Dagney
    Dagney

    Me likey Coco.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Dears Baba and Dagney ...

    s and s....

    Love,

    CoCo

  • compound complex
  • Dagney
    Dagney

    Is that yours Coco?

    Beautiful!!!

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    It is turbulent and somewhat disturbing.

    Full of churning motion.

    Even the sky spins.

    ohhhhhh, I am getting seasick now.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Dears Dagney and Cameo:

    Thank you for responding!

    Yes, Dag, it is mine; it's entitled Sailing.

    Get out the Dramamine, Cameo!

    The original was merely a study in Ultramarine and Pthalo blues and Titanium white, with an undercoat wash containing linseed oil and turpentine. When I sent it in to be computer scanned, the technician somehow drew out the yellow tones of the underlayment and created, much to my surprise, the look that has you bilious!

    CoCo on Canvas

    edited to add: I just checked out an early original print [blues and white only], and while the action is the same, yet it appears more serene and the waves less roiling. Go figure ...

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