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PAINTINGS BY EMMY VERSCHOOR

VOOR EMMY

Voor Emmy

Zijn het pluimen of bladeren
die ontsnappen uit je binnenste hartkamer
of is het de gloed van de kleur van kloppend bloed
hunkerend naar de stilte van rimpelloos
Water?

Als haar handen vloeibaar worden
krijgt de piano vleugels op het doek
Een boom verbijt haar vergezicht
In de diepte luisteren wortels verrukt
naar de zachte braille van haar bestaan
Tuinen hangen van de wolken
omlaag, omhoog groeien vreemde bloemen
uit een ingebeelde notenbalk.

Guido Vermeulen
14 november 2011


Muziek bij de video: Claude Debussy

woensdag 28 maart 2012

L’oiseau de feu / The fire bird


Small painted envelope mailed to Melanie Lucas, USA
Inspired by the music of Stravinsky

The conference of birds


Small painted envelope for Emily Garrison, Canada
Inspired by the book by ATTAR (Persian mystic poet, ca 1140-1230, Sufism)

vrijdag 23 maart 2012

THE LAST FISH




THE LAST FISH


I'll never forget what he said to me
the night I told him the time had come
the red coals glowing in the trees
were all that was left to us of the sun

we'd seen the torment coming
the anguish under wet-lidded eyes
which spoke so eloquently of a past
too far away and knew misfortune was
the only thing that had a future here

the time had come and all he could
manage to say about the trees
and those tortured eyes was that
you can't dig a grave with a teaspoon

the last fish cut scarcely a silhouette
as it rose against the branches
desperately seeking the empty sky


Eric Basso, USA, March 22, 2012

Photomontages and collage by Guido Vermeulen

woensdag 21 maart 2012

dinsdag 20 maart 2012

Archival Tongues



Small painted envelope around a passage from the poem THE JACKAL by David Stone, followed by illustration of David around his own poem

CHILDREN AS TREES


Small painted envelope around a poem by Paul Celan:

Nothing but single children with faint, moory mother smells in the throat,
as trees, as blackadders, chosen and scentless

Mailed to Rebecca Guyver in the UK