Wednesday, December 8, 2010

  


     I don't remember 

     there was a cat 
     there was a drill
     fire quickly spread 
     the cat springed and hid in the cupboard
     Ofcourse he had to jump into the highest
     nook he could find 
     I had to get the chair and drag it across the floor  
     paint and varnish peelings dragged along with us 
     I and the chair  
     the chair had a life 
     many a thought and feeling sat here
     the weight continually shrinks and swells with
     each passing season
     It sits a century later in a corner 
     painted and stripped several times over 
     with a string I draw a knot over a rubber spider   
     the cat leaps and chases
     as I run leading him down the stairs






















4 comments:

  1. Lovely - i loved the lines:
    'I and the chair
    the chair had a life
    many a thought and feeling sat here'

    I take it that's a painting of yours? - you are very talented ...

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  2. Thankyou Graham..painting gosh no..its a photo of me and my cat "Avanga" ( which in Tongo mean to avenge) in 1985..that cat was a terror. I picked him up from an animal shelter..he was already called graffiti..I never met a cat before or since that could run along walls..for fun he would bounce of sleeping bodies..I had him for over 10 yrs..untill my son was born and he began to growl like a panther

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  3. hehe ... wow ... even now, when I enlarged it, the pic still looks looks like a painting ... :) ... it's still a great image ... when I first saw it and thought it was a painting I was thinking to myself how nicely you'd captured the shadows ... I guess I'd make a lousy art critic ... :(

    Avanga sounds like he had quite a character hey ...

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  4. It is an interesting composition, taken at night , its low resolution so it looks rather grainy...

    you take great photos..you don't need to be a critic..:)

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