Before the Brush

543: in the light that shows us where we are

by pbsartist | January 21, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I’ll cut to the chase so there’s no misunderstandingI am not talking about God nor god though I suspect that’s been assumed by youreader poetry’s design presumes we will go there or is it Theregoodness knows I’ve made past attemptbut words got...

542: see what thy soul doth wear*

by pbsartist | January 19, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

*George Herbert potentialities lie dormant in all of usmaybe this is a course in nature that doesn't need correctingno scratching away at as if it not evident without effortassuage this loss of capacity for self-renewal we can stop that nonsense cloaked in anxiety ...

541: reasoning REreasoning

by pbsartist | January 17, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

You have your own way of looking at things I have mineWe can share to the depth of our being from our own view pointnever though can we replicate with any truth and spirit each others horizon to bring each to the truest place of...

540: itness

by pbsartist | January 15, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

between if and is do we know the different is it invention is it practicality she pretends time is not howling outside her window staring as she does at this sliver of sky calling it daytime she seems unable to reconcile between confusion and some obscure vision of...

539: atrophied

by pbsartist | January 13, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

made seemingly to be full of life active and aware it is all necessary the hoarder proclaims possessions make life imprisoned unaware until one breaks out at home lost all capacity to see outside the most stubborn protector of their vestment lost all capacity for self...

538: nature as breviary

by pbsartist | January 11, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

breaking through eternal timelife exists in this quivering the iron cage of conviction becomes the sight of all things no thing the eradicable what ifeven the stoics bow down awaken from long darkened slumber 100% of everyone will see the...

537: my hands

by pbsartist | January 9, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

overwhelmed with nowthings tasks duties obligations with deadlines I asked for this well not this quite this way big surprise I continue to never recognize its startling appearance all the same it arrives in a billowy...

536: cairns

by pbsartist | January 7, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I feel robbed of my usefulness five years gone searching my foothold slipped down a mountainside I built from the rubble of my past it was a beautiful cairn tall wide stable supportive until those that joined me atop its peak began to carry away stones held together...

535: and you there

by pbsartist | January 5, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

were I to believe my earnestness then you don't matter what to make of the carrying of this weight then shed were it possible the assessment the searching what is left after the acknowledgement no longer comes the admiration sloughs off the thing I thought was what it...

534: when the birds begin

by pbsartist | January 3, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I know betterthere are no questions to be asked noranswers to be sought what if I often posit to wake on this Monday sayor even Sundaylisten to this song of songs that never ceases thoughalways changes cadence ...

533: and yet

by pbsartist | January 1, 2025 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I can't do it anymore it's not hopeful it's not progress it's not change it's not impact it's disparaging it's discouraging it's debilitating it's sad so sad I am not that I must leave this hope and find something real the song of the soul was taken for a ride I...

532: yes

by pbsartist | December 30, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I don't want to change the world it's just that well yes I do yes I do yes I do yes I do the world is asking for it I mean no harm and in fact only intend to leave nothing but something for someone else to discover and take on a journey of...

531: a storied reality

by pbsartist | December 28, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

A story is a model of reality. Something is always a metaphor. The hopeless thing in my heart stops falling and finds a small place to stand. Helen Garner The sounds inside sending up the day like the stomp of steps; the laugh of puddles; the deep reach of...

530: we are looking for

by pbsartist | December 26, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

we are looking for a new place this wintering of my soul is seeking a likeness on the outside he may not manage he may need to abandon my desires seeking out his warmer summer I must extricate myself from the unfortunates who ramble on or else I don't just lose the...

529: signs

by pbsartist | December 24, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

in the dark I can make out the signs I've been here so many times though never before I am lost to nothing if I am honest maybe I've misunderstood the directions but I am not convinced the mapmaker knew the way when they drew the lines around this...

528: paint mental pictures

by pbsartist | December 22, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

you're safe there colors you choose shapes you create images you recognize beyond earthly things such as school as this self replete with knowing we have lost but oh for some there is so much we have won I'll take the loss to get the gain

527: mysterious mysterium

by pbsartist | December 20, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I used to climb treeslove means something different from such a perspectiveit waited there for a girl too young to know the world too old to stop what’s becomenot for want of effort the mother tried I’ll give her thatboy crazy nothing will come of you who says...

526: heart

by pbsartist | December 18, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I read about heart being the navigator the barometer the guide to which to align our life a place to follow and to fall but I can't find resonance long years find me trying to agree to feel what they say is there to be felt now no longer a search a seeking a calling...

525: dateless

by pbsartist | December 16, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

in limbo between middle and old age done so much in the rearview yet nothing dead within life pokes and prods eager to do make create be in something that doesn't hold enough motion is the world holding reins or perhaps I am disillusioned thinking I can reign the...

524: if I want it all

by pbsartist | December 14, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

thinking behind the thinking a list of questions this morningthey seem to never end thought and questionis this enough to be called alivewhat if there is something behind first thoughtwhat if the reaction were not the real story justa seasoned...

523: be delight

by pbsartist | December 12, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I eat sunlight as if raspberriesas if sweet candy taken in great gulpsa child with no restraintI’ve missed a lesson in the body’s propensities for reaction nearly upon us the solstice bittersweetturning goes on unabashedmy hands clench to keep the...

522: a haiku for you and for me

by pbsartist | December 10, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

back and forth choices such bounty this life allows like the jester dance we have options here choices every day that give life love depending how we think of it all as we choose and apply life really is a gift when we open up to the adventure letting stuff and needs...

521: monar ohar

by pbsartist | December 8, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

I trust there are lessons of serendipity in the soul we learn we leave we regroup these life experience comes back to us some call it deja vu views into the past serendipity lives here in the soul the spirit of each goes on and relives we glimpse these and call them...

520: flow

by pbsartist | December 6, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

full moon sagittarius sun sign all the knowing I desire meets in this place now the trust I seek is put on my heart no my hands or both as a gift and also responsibility I get to receive and accept both we are built as bodies in order to house the heart and soul a...

519: the moves we make

by pbsartist | December 4, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

the only way to know is to ask nothe only way to know is to search the stars that glimmer deep inside the bowels ofself then follow where they leadnever full conviction no answers and directions mapped out oh how I desire ...

518: you will see II

by pbsartist | December 2, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

you will see in the light you long for all along there not hidden just ignored or missed entirely yet all of a sudden so real so obvious it's never been hard the way we thought it to be we've just been trying to make the something from nothing- as if like gods- when...

517: you will see

by pbsartist | November 30, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

you will see in the light you long for for what you long is in the light

516: just a poem VI

by pbsartist | November 28, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

had we the time the world as it still might be could offer us depths of consciousness and degrees of wonder in and of its own intentions of existence we humans seek too hard to know when what was ever asked of us was to abide

515: just a poem V

by pbsartist | November 26, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

from a singular gaze one can receive everything required is the right eye and the open palm outstretched no one can walk it alone

514: just a poem IV

by pbsartist | November 24, 2024 | OPENstudio | 0 Comments

the uncreated light alone is what wakes the soul from the darkness of slumber we all must rise like the sun first tinting the rooftops we too take tentative steps toward our full illumination