Flurries in Red and White Painting

Flurries in Red and White ~ Poem by Timothy Barrow Shortly after moving to the south coast, I went to my very first Open Mic out of curiosity and in a bid to meet new people/friends. This Open Mic introduced me to many amazing and wonderful people I never before knew existed: Poets! It is as this first Open Mic that I met Tim Barrow, a wonderfully creative poet who seems to create poems out of colours, except that the colours are actual words. As an artist, I found this first poem I heard him read very inspiring. Flurries in Red and White ~ Barber shop poles twizzle down In illusions of downward breezes, Invisible winds rattle paper Stained with old sauces bought With now cold discarded meats Baiting to night's life lying Upon polystyrene clamshell boxes ~ Round corners signs of red And one white stripe gesture all to stop In their nightly staggering tracks Where no danger lurks Until unawares caught To no entry here, no entry there And red shadows walking on grey ~ Butcher's canopies flap To traditions of red and white Appetised joints and minced out bone And tightly spiced bags of winter flavour Drain life bloods that drip away To roast and sealed patterned skins Wrapping to their honey and latticed end. ~ Robes in red and fur lined whitened Timeless figures stoop in resin To seasonal passing's and yearly nadir's Dark skies and beckoning snows Under red sunset's poking clouds Pinpointing Christmas lights dipping downwards Their cold in blue electric frost. ~ At polar opposite season's zenith Red swirls to white embed themselves To sweetened sticks, rocks and candies; Helter skelter's swirl now stands Forlorn to darkened winter's shadows Against a fading light Of rising morning moon's eclipse. ~ Robin's breast against fallen snow Laps below bedraggled creepers Pitted black berries and discarded seeds And Evergreen's sap withdraws, Holly's berries reveal themselves In timeless ebbs and winter's herald To unfolding season’s Christmasstide. ~ Timothy Barrow, 18th December 2010 For this painting, I threw myself in splashes of red and white, with layers of paint but also torn coloured paper. I enjoyed having words talking to me in colours.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0.8 D in

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