Words

For The Mag and Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Chair With the Wings of a Vulture, 1960, Salvador Dali 

Wings grow to hide my wall
Fiery lights run hurt away
Thorns in palms fester
Blister on blister turn callous
You toughen
Grow stronger
Build a wall inside
Learn to wear gloves
So nothing can hurt

The Mag 157 Venus de Milo With Drawers...

Every Sunday I await Tess Kincaid's unique writing challenges to be inspired by her visual prompts.  Never letting us down, today she present Venus de Milo with Drawers by Salvador Dali.  Join the challenge and read other pieces that were borne from this very different visual prompt today.  No guidelines in regards to style, keep it clean and link up at Magpie Tales.

Imagine Venus with drawers

She already had a cloth

What she needed was arms

But at her loss we scoff

Dali gave her knobs instead 

And places to hide your stuff

Although this adds depth and use

Having arms would be a plus

I admire Dali's talent

But fear inside his head

I would add a one drawer wonder

By installing a jack-in-the-box instead

The Mag 135

Venus and The Sailor, 1925, by Salvador Dali is our artistic prompt from Tess Kincaid this week.  A delightful exercise and definitely a challenge.

I chose few words and an even smaller portion of the picture.

I am always amazed at the multitude of wonderful creations that are born from the same visual prompt.

Thanks, Tess!

 Life kicks out

Crying out to be lived

There are no sounds

The Sands silence them.