The Prayer of Bearmom
Collaboration alert! This wonderful piece is another by the uber talented Rick Mobbs.
The poem below is one I wrote for it. Hooray! (the crowd goes wild)
Farewell to father moon
Whilst in night he flies
He came and painted dew
He now seeks other skies
The spirit of the sun
She comes sprinkling light
The day has so begun
Emancipating night
The spirit of the Earth
Hair of gilded maize
Shares with all her worth
For the coming days
The Bearmom says a prayer to
All the spirits of the land
Shares with them her gratitude
Appreciation of her clan
The mothers hold their young
In rituals beginning day
Swathed in fabric long
Stitched as Bearmom prays
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May 2, 2008 at 11:38 am
i am sooo enjoying ricks work.. i think it moves us all to veer off in directions we ordinarily wouldn’t… and this piece is a great example of that… i really enjoyed the read,, and the visual it provided as i looked deep into the painting…
May 2, 2008 at 11:53 am
This is lovely! The only suggestion i might make is to change “gilded maze” to “gilded maize” maybe a bit more aprpos the codex-like parchment feel of this image and our current societal obsession with corn and dependence upon corn. G
May 2, 2008 at 11:59 am
I love the bearmom, and the way you switched the genders of brother sun, sister moon. It is beautiful, oz, and captures the spirit of what I was trying to say. Funny how sometimes we don’t know what we are trying to say until we hear it said. It is a prayer…
May 2, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Thanks guys.
And I will change the word. That was actually what I meant to say, I probably misspelled it and spell check fixed it. Good proofreading on my part, eh?
May 2, 2008 at 1:14 pm
you and rick are creating a new mythos; visual and verbal tales so rich that they have to be immortalized. Stories that tickle the subconscious and inspire dreams.
{{awesome}}
May 2, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Beautiful and befitting. You and Rick make quite a team.
May 2, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hi Ozy…..hooray hooray hooray the crowd has gone wild …..
Great words really outstanding…
May 2, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Just wonderful, in the truest sense: Full of Wonder
May 3, 2008 at 9:06 am
I really like how I think it’s someone new, because your layout changes, and then I see the excellent words and notice that it’s you.
May 5, 2008 at 7:45 am
like the new look
*crowd goes wild*
May 5, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Yes, this is really of the painting, if that makes sense, you did a great job.