You know who you are

 

By Klügmann Painter - Jastrow (2006), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=668158

You know who you are

You give me riddles and pointless little trials.

You must be bored.

I tried to stay away from you,

but you keep singing out of tune,

you keep growling at me through clenched teeth,

and when I ask what you want

you pretend to be asleep.

Then you make me wake up at night,

you offer me simile as lame

as yesterday’s first drafts,

metaphors as pointless,

as they are stale.

You don’t follow rules you say,  

yet you keep dancing around the truth,

you wear this shield of platitudes,

and you hide your face in shadows.

GloPoWriMo Day 2

How Mona Lisa was painted

 

How Mona Lisa was painted

He painted her on a base of red-brown ochre.

He dressed her in iron oxide and vegetable browns.

The colours of her chest were those of red ground and bone black

The hue on her skin was lead white and Flanders yellow.

The shadows on her face – burnt amber and black ink.

GloPoWriMo Day 1

I used the following resource

The Thorns

 

The Thorns

She has wrapped her heart in these thorns.

Nothing gets inside and nothing leaves.

Well, not alive, anyway.

There are wild things sitting on her shoulders.

They look cute, but I wouldn’t trust them.

I worry for the hummingbird.

It has been eating her pain for too long.

Its poor heart has turned black too.

Meanwhile some butterflies mind their own business.

They are not here to save, or to comfort.

They are just resting their wings for a while.

GloPoWriMo Day 0 - a portrait