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Sara

Posted on Nov 9th, 2009 by alimojo : THE GYPSY CHRONICLES alimojo
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I sit, sometimes sleep, dream and pray too - beneath the light of an angel I found on the side of the road last Christmas. 
She was white plastic when I found her, with a little note taped to her wings: "FREE" 
Her arms were outstretched,  palms open. I stopped the car at once and claimed her. It pained me to see her there like that.
Once home I painted flamenco polka dots on her dress, a head scarf and a shawl over her hips, then added a necklace of gold coins and earrings. I replaced the burnt out luminaria and called her Sara.  
She is excellent company.

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Gypsy, Dryad or Poem. It doesn't matter which.

Posted on Nov 21st, 2009 by alimojo : THE GYPSY CHRONICLES alimojo
Dryad, Gypsy, Poem, Little Companion of my Soul

I didn't know in any concrete kind of way what I was painting but I had on my mind some lines of poetry and was listening to the great Gypsy band Urs Karpatz as I worked. When I thought she was one thing, she turned out to be another. Only in my dreams are things exactly as they seem.  I call her Little Companion of my Soul.
A friend said that she was a Dryad - and I could see...yes, she looked like a dryad.
Who is the artist to tell what something is? Writing instructors say: Show, don't tell.
Engage. So who is she? Everyone she meets she tells a different story to their heart. Maybe that is most who she is. A little teller of tales. Who can say.

Dryad, Gypsy, Poem or


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